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Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

“The long historian of my country's woes.”

Source: The Iliad ...

“History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.”

Mind Long Book History Ideals Labor England Pursuit Cards Posts Documents Sections Arriving New England Gentlemanly

Book:A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

“There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.”

Long Ends Grows Causes History Tree Racism Prejudice Greed Wave Distrust Curves Racial Prejudice Internment Oscillation

Book:Heart Mountain: A Novel

Source: Heart Mountain: A Novel

“The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.”

People Heart Long America Past Nations History Taught Color Hero Lessons Racism Divides Villain Resentment Unspoken Lessons Of The Past

Book:Lessons in Living

Source: Lessons in Living

“It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.”

Want Mind Long Loss History Regret Habit Occupation Roman Empire

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

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

“The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of the regal dignity. The right of hereditary succession was long confined to the blood of the founder of the monarchy; and at this moment all the Khans, who reign from Crimea to the wall of China, are the lineal descendants of the renowned Zingis.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus

“As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.”

Long War Passion Interest Justice History Modern Subjects Mankind Policy Council Antiquity Roman Empire Deliberation

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

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

“Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.”

Years Long School History East Seats Forty Rome Principal Rejected Roman Empire Intervals Fortresses Alexandria Constantinople

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

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

“A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness.”

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

“Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo.”

Long Reality Next Politics Sound Realizing Community Hours History Comedy Too Much Tvs Directors Thirty Honey Dedicated Documentaries Franklin Fourteen Boo Boo Honey Boo Boo

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.”

“Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.”

Long Stills Two Dream Today Nations History Century Birth Excited Brilliant Urges Quests Founders Milestone

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

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

Long Hands Freedom History

Author:James Robertson

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.”

“Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.”

Long Ideas History Wall Skins Caught Tigers Hunters

Author:John F. Kennedy

“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”

Men Long Has Beens War Reality Term Religious History Conflict Long Term Nature Of Man Religious Wars Religion War Religion And War Religious Conflict Causes Of Conflict

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

Love Life Inspirational Looks Long Motivational Happiness Success Motivation Opportunity Women Change Healing History Doors Positive Positive Thinking College Regret Perseverance This Life Moving On Breakup Broken Heart Encouraging New Beginnings Positive Life Seekers Long Life Take A Chance Break Up I Regret Words To Live By Closed Doors Life Time Life Is Good Famous Motivational Letting Go And Moving On Opportunity Knocks Time Of Day Life And Time Life Opportunity Window Of Opportunity My Heart Is Broken Inspirational New Beginning New Day New Beginning New Life New Beginning Life Regret Student Motivation Life And Inspirational After Breakup Life Best Inspirational Regretful Adversity Motivational After Break Up Exam Motivational New Beginning Life Opened Doors Staying Positive In Life Another Opportunity Love Life Inspirational Healing Heart Inspiration And Life Moving On After Breakup New Beginnings In Life Inspirational Divorce Really Sad Break Up Closing Doors My Life Is Good

Author:Alexander Graham Bell

“Character is long-standing habit.”

Long Art Philosophy Character History Habit Standing

Author:Plutarch

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.”

Source: Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)

“He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!”

Long Might Can Do History Authority Long Life

Author:Gottfried Benn

“History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.”

Long Doe Real History

Author:Bruce Catton

“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

“This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.”

Men Long Can Do History Morning Sun He Man Habit Speech Tough Performances Surface Clever Reputation Fake World War 2 Sun Rise

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”

Giving Long Jobs History Failing Battle Tools Trials Shock Tire Stay Strong World War 2 Exertion Vigilance

Author:Winston Churchill

“History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.”

Source: Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle

“As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.”

Long War Character History Mankind Military Glory Vices Thirst Applause Exalted Roman Empire Total War Destroyers Benefactors

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

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

“And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.”

Believe Long Important War Running I Believe History Battle Long Runs Theorems Fugue

Author:James Hilton

“In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.”

People Long Courses Understanding History Greater Security Submarines

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.”

“You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.”

Long Friendship Enemy History Friend Enemy

Book:The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.”

“We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.”

Knows Men Long Two Science Sides Nature Natural History Mankind Accounts Divided Two Sides

Author:Karl Marx

“Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.”

Long Culture Courses Term History Path Special Products Mere Accidents Ideology Long Term Logical Trends Nazism Nazi Germany Inexorable Culmination German History

Book:Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

Source: Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

“He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.”

Ifs Long War Strong History Feet Wind Horse Enormous Sat Civil War American Civil War Stride Strong Winds

Author:James I. Robertson, Jr.

“Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.”

Long Art Philosophy Time History Periods Eternity Everlasting Flux Parentheses

Book:John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers

Source: John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers

“It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.”

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

Long Has Beens Done God Names History Sat Parliament British History Done With You

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth.”

People Men Life Persons Long Might Truth Lasts Remember Order Memories History Fire Written Blood Dangerous Truth Is Musician Ancient Seeking Indian Flames Trust Me Radiant Unwise

Author:Floyd Red Crow Westerman

“It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.”

Men Should Mind Long Government Eye Spirit Causes Levels Secret History Fire Military Genius Corruption Poison Empires Decay Uniforms Roman Empire Felicity Latent

Author:Edward Gibbon

“American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?”

Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

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