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“Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.”

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Author:Barbara Holland

“Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”

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

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

“It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.”

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

“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.”

“History remembers most what you did last.”

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Author:Christopher Plummer

“Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.”

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Author:Charles William Eliot

“Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.”

Mind Remember History

Author:Kirby Wright

“In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.”

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Author:Wilma Mankiller

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.”

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

“I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.”

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Author:Jane Addams

“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”

People Remember History Habit Annoying Eragon

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”

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

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

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.”

“I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.”

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Author:Robert E. Lee

“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

“We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!”

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Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.”

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Author:Shelby Foote

“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.”

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Author:Floyd Red Crow Westerman

“To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.”

People Remember Father Boys History Assassination Fathers Day Coffins

Author:Michael Beschloss

“Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.”

Remember Hours History Camouflage God Provides

Author:David M. Shoup

“I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.”

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Author:John Foster Dulles

“To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

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