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“By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.”

Needs Feels Hands History Stupid Danger Humour Planets Europe Dues Graves Cute Royal Extinction Royal Family Inbreds Koalas

Author:Nancy Banks-Smith

“The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.”

Years Two Whole Hands Views History Citizens Property Strikes Instance Manners Sufficient Remarkable Division Roman Empire Magistrates

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1

“But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.”

Mind Humans Philosophy Hands Able Principles History Gentle Human Mind Boast Fanaticism Roman Empire Latent

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.”

Men Hands Enemy History Virtue Blood Gold Filled Perpetual Thrones Roman Empire Bad Man Alexandria

Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

“In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.”

Hands Community Cities History Middle Seats Labour Commerce Respectable Roman Empire Subsistence Dexterity

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.”

Humans Wisdom Hands Human Beings History Human Nature Importance Human Rights Terrorism Ideology Free Speech

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.”

People Thinking Hands Truth Enemy History Power Information Skillful Misuse Perversion

Author:John le Carre

“While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.”

Source: The judgment of history

“There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.”

Hands Past Race History Cold Flow Egotism Solemn

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.”

Facts Hands Fiction History Fables Recitals

Book:Voltaire's Alphabet of wit

Source: Voltaire's Alphabet of wit

“The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.”

Long Hands Freedom History

Author:James Robertson

“God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.”

World Wells God Hands Time Nations History Modern Instruments Chosen Empires Rulers Theologian Modern World Roman Empire Instruments Of God

Author:John Gresham Machen

“Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?”

Thinking Kind Two Hands Together Views History Shakes Contradiction Representatives Daydreaming Opposing Get Together Opposing Views

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.”

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Author:Benito Mussolini

“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.”

Hands History Newspapers Metals Inferiors Second Chance Second Hand

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

Source: No Greater Love

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”

Years Hands Three History Thousand Draws Mouths Thousand Years

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.”

Hands Past History Historian Cynical

Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

“It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me.”

Ends Hands History Saws Needed Instruments Spread Propositions Leading Me

Author:Amelia Bloomer

“Let us be patient with one another, And even patient with ourselves. We have a long, long way to go. So let us hasten along the road, The road of human tenderness and generosity. Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark.”

Way Humans May Long Hands Dark History Patient Generosity Tenderness Long Way Be Patient Long Way To Go

Author:Emily Greene Balch

“To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions.”

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Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.”

Believe Hands Past History Alive Benefits Harm

Book:The Shape of Irish History

Source: The Shape of Irish History

“There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.”

Men Has Beens Hands Science Universe Energy History Keys Discovery Fundamentals Energy Of The Universe

Author:Frederick Soddy

“[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth," "das Gesprach mit der Erde."”

Ifs Way Hands School Earth Science History Materials Depends Remains Silent Dialogue Investigation Objectivity Geology Interrogation Mit Geologist

Author:Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.”

Ifs Giving Hands Opportunity Politics History Crime Capitalism Gangsters Great Opportunity Organized Crime Americanism American Capitalism Bootlegging

Author:Al Capone

“The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.”

Men Character Hands Science Order History Records Generations Legends

Author:Roderick Murchison

“Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.”

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Author:Joseph de Maistre

“Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.”

Ifs World May Ends Country Hands Able History Achieve Duty Racism Assuming Our Country Nightmare World History Handful

Author:James A. Baldwin

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