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“The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.”

People War Shows Lasts Values Challenges Memories History Gone Sorrow Ordinary Endure Realization Civil War Bitterness Worn Veteran Ordinary People American Civil War

Author:Bruce Catton

“I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.”

Art Philosophy Shows Spirit Chance History Ashes

Book:Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes

Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes

“History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.”

Thinking World Should Writing Important Play Use Shows Dream Moral History Reader Discipline Errors Reactions Tendencies Falsehood Versus Mixtures What's Important Writing History Power Play

Book:Heart Mountain

Source: Heart Mountain

“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.”

“I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.”

People Thinking Humans Whole Shows Humanity History Kings Hundred Species Titles Ministers Fifty Historian Contempt Pope Emperor Human Species Provoked

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.”

Men Made Shows Opportunity Stuff Chance History Economic Strive Secure

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“One of the outstanding ironies of history is the utter disregard of ranks and titles in the final judgments men pass on each other. The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart.”

Men Mind Heart Character Shows Care Quality History Office Achievement Judgment Finals Deeds Titles Irony Judgement Preacher Heart And Mind Outstanding Disregard

Author:Samuel Logan Brengle

“Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.”

Men Should Doe Use Shows Pain Law Purpose Force History Conditions Dangerous Morality Easier Protect Labor Property Painful Tendencies Collectives Evident Resorts Plunder

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”

Country Shows Able Effort Consciousness Class History Trade Unions Working Class Trade Unions Class Consciousness

Book:Essential Works of Lenin:

Source: Essential Works of Lenin:

“The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.”

People Shows Government Motivational Lasts Given History Advice Century Consistently Businessman Bankers

Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

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

“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”

People Done Shows Creativity History Youth Solitude Majority Being Alone Seclusion

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.”

Ifs Years Littles Ideas Shows Age History Sacrifice Middle Gratitude Late Perfection Western Defeat Prosperity Unhappy Communism Fascism Elites Middle Ages Latitude Beneficiaries

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.”

War Shows Today House White History Position Fool Mad Britain Liars White House World War 2 Arches Drunkards Accomplices

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.”

Humans Different War Stories Shows Dream Action Humanity Speak Peace History Politician Ultimate Aspiration Simplest Our Actions Evoke Incessantly

Author:Javier Perez de Cuellar

“The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.”

Source: Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers

“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.”

Source: Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More

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