"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.." -Pierre Corneille-
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.".-Robert Leighton-
"Give all thou canst;high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.".-William Wordsworth-
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.".-Aldous Huxley
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"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.".-Arthur Koestler-
"Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.".-Bertolt Brecht-
"History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.".-Clarence Darrow-
"In all our efforts to provide ''advantages'' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.''".-Eda J. Le Shan-
"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.".-George Santayana-
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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly;more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.".-Karl Marx-
"History is the devil's scripture.".-Lord George Byron-
"The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.".-Nicholas Butler-
"Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.".-Oscar Wilde-
"The greatest man in history was the poorest.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.".-Voltaire-
"You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.".-Alexander Pope-
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.".-Babe Ruth-
"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?".-C. S. Lewis-
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.".-Dale Carnegie-
"People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.".-Francis Bacon-
"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.".-Henry Home-
"Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.".-Kin Hubbard-
"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.".-Norman Douglas-
"A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.".-Philip Roth-
"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.".-William E. Gladstone-
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"I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.".-Allan K. Chalmers-
"Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in that hope that if they keep an saying it long enough it will be true.".-Arnold Bennett-
"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
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"One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.." -Pir Vilayat Khan-
"I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho, that we may both grow weary at a time;for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.".-Sir John Vanbrugh-
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.".-William Wordsworth-
"The people who have really made history are the martyrs.".-Aleister Crowley
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"I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of ''Munich'' may exceed the original error of 1938.".-Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.-
"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.".-Bertrand Russell-
"History repeats itself;that's one of the things that's wrong with history.".-Clarence Darrow-
"We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.".-Elizabeth Cady Stanton-
"The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.".-George Santayana-
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"You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.".-Hermann Hesse-
"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.".-Karl Marx-
"In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.".-Louis Kronenberger-
"The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.".-Noam Chomsky-
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it.".-Otto Von Bismarck-
"There is properly no history;only biography.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]".-William E. Gladstone-
"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.".-Alfred Hitchcock-
"I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and, all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.".-Bear Bryant-
"Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.".-Casey Stengel-
"The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.".-Frank Herbert-
"The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.".-Henry Home-
"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.".-Kin Hubbard-
"The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate d".-Norman Tebbit-
"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.".-Phillips Brooks-
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.".-William Wordsworth-
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"With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.".-Alphonse Karr-
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
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"We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can;and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible;and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.." -Plato-
"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.".-Thomas Hardy-
"Spires whose silent finger points to heaven.".-William Wordsworth-
"We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.".-Alexander Maclaren
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"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.".-B. C. Forbes-
"Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas - to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.".-Bill Clinton-
"People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.".-Dan Quayle-
"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.".-Ernest Dimnet-
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.".-H. G. Wells-
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"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.".-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt-
"History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.".-Mark Twain-
"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.".-Noam Chomsky-
"Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love;and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.".-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-
"It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own;it simply erases your own experience in history.".-Renata Adler-
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"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.".-William H. Borah-
"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.".-Alice Walker-
"Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.".-Ben Johnston-
"Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.".-Channing Pollock-
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.".-Dorothy Parker-
"Peace, like charity, begins at home.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
"I think patriotism is like charity - it begins at home.".-Henry James-
"If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.".-Lawana Blackwell-
"You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.".-O. Henry Porter-
"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.".-Phyllis Diller-
"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.".-Winston Churchill-
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"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.".-Aeschylus-
"Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
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"I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.." -R. A. Torrey-
"Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.".-Thomas Moore-
"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.".-Alphonse De Lamartine
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"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.".-Barbara Ehrenreich-
"What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.".-Boris Pasternak-
"At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.".-Derek Wall-
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.".-Eugene V. Debs-
"History is more or less bunk.".-Henry Ford-
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"History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.".-Kate Millet-
"The Bible has noble poetry in it;and some clever fables;and some blood-drenched history;and a wealth of obscenity;and upwards of a thousand lies.".-Mark Twain-
"The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.".-Noam Chomsky-
"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.".-Plato-
"The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.".-Richard Cecil-
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"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.".-Winston Churchill-
"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.".-Allan Bloom-
"Home is the girl's prison.".-Bernard Shaw-
"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.".-Charles H. Parkhurst-
"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.".-Dorothy Parker-
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.".-Henry Miller-
"My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.".-Lee Trevino-
"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher;but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.".-Phyllis Schlafly-
"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.".-Woody Allen-
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"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.".-Albert Camus-
"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Each day is a little life;every waking and rising a little birth;every fresh morning a little youth;every going to rest and sleep a little dearth.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
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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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"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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"Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.." -Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.".-Wernher Von Braun-
"In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history".-Albert Camus-
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.".-Angela Carter
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"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.".-Benito Mussolini-
"All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!".-Camille Paglia-
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.".-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
"It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.".-Francis Bacon-
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.".-Henry James-
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"History is a better guide than good intentions.".-Jeane Kirkpatrick-
"The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.".-Laurence Sterne-
"History is a set of lies agreed upon.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"A page of history is worth a pound of logic.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.".-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin-
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"The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.".-Anita Brookner-
"There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.".-Bill Bryson-
"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.".-Confucius-
"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.".-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
"Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said;after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.".-Helen Rowland-
"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.".-Hermann Hesse-
"You see much more of your children once they leave home.".-Lucille Ball-
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.".-A. W. Tozer-
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"All human wisdom is summed up in two words;wait and hope.".-Alexandre Dumas-
"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.".-Anthony Hope-
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Every person takes the limits for their own field of vision for the limits of the world.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
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"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.." -Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.".-William B. Yeats-
"Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.".-Albert Camus-
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history;for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.".-Aristotle
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"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.".-Benito Mussolini-
"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.".-Camille Paglia-
"Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.".-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
"I am responsible only to God and history.".-Francisco Franco-
"There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
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"It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.".-John Lydon Rotten-
"Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.".-Leigh Hunt-
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.".-Voltaire-
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"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.".-Woody Allen-
"At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.".-Ann Landers-
"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.".-Bill Cosby-
"So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.".-Cornelius Nepos-
"Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.".-Henrik Ibsen-
"No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.".-John Mason Brown-
"Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.".-Lydia M. Child-
"Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.".-Orville Wright-
"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.".-Thomas Moore-
"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.".-Abraham Cowley-
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"Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life;what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-
"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.".-Anthony Hope-
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
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