155.Quotes On Heaven:History:Home:Hope-Part 5
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"Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life;they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to n." -Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels - we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]".-Tom Hanks-
"I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.".-Al Oerter-
"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.".-Anatole France
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"In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.".-Ben Hecht-
"It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.".-Brian Friel-
"If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.".-Felix Frankfurter-
"It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.".-Henry Ford-
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"Fascism is a European inquietude. It is a way of knowing everything - history, the State, the achievement of the proletarianization of public life, a new way of knowing the phenomena of our epoch.".-J. A. Primo De Rivera-
"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.".-Katherine Anne Porter-
"Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.".-Matthew Arnold-
"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.".-Norman Cousins-
"A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors;for the expression of all his history, and his wants.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"My argument is that war makes rattling good history;but peace is poor reading.".-Thomas Hardy-
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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.".-Winston Churchill-
"The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companions".-Amelia Earhart-
"When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.".-Betty Bender-
"A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside;inside, it is more often his nursery.".-Clare Boothe Luce-
"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?".-Dorothy Thompson-
"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.".-George Moore-
"Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where;He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go t".-Henry Vaughan-
"My home is not a place, it is people.".-Lois McMaster Bujold-
"A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"Home is where the heart is.".-Pliny the Elder-
"I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.".-Wyndham Lewis-
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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.".-Albert Einstein-
"A book might be written on the injustice of the just.".-Anthony Hope-
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
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