156.Quotes On Heaven:History:Home:Hope-Part 6
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"I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.." -Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.".-Victor Hugo-
"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.".-Albert Camus-
"Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.".-Angela Carter
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"Blood alone moves the wheels of history.".-Benito Mussolini-
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.".-C. S. Lewis-
"The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.".-Don Delillo-
"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.".-Francis Bacon-
"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.".-Henry Ford-
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"We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"The men who make history have not time to write it.".-Klemens Von Metternich-
"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.".-Max Eastman-
"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.".-Octavio Paz-
"All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.".-Virginia Woolf-
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"Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.".-Amos Bronson Alcott-
"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.".-Betty Friedan-
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.".-Clare Boothe Luce-
"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.".-Dr. James C. Dobson-
"At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.".-Harold Macmillan-
"The people recognize themselves in their commodities;they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.".-Herbert Marcuse-
"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.".-Zig Ziglar-
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"In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.".-Alexander the Great-
"Good families are generally worse than any others.".-Anthony Hope-
"A word too much always defeats its purpose.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Every parting gives a foretaste of death;every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
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