| Abraham Lincoln |
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the futur...
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| Abraham Lincoln |
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy ...
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| Alexis de Tocqueville |
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few or...
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| Alfred Korzybski |
The map is not the territory....
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| Ambrose Bierce |
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly uni...
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| Anwar Sadat |
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can ...
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| Colin Powell |
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depen...
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| Colin Powell |
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world....
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| Confucius |
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising ...
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| Harry S. Truman |
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as...
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| Arnold J. Toynbee |
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage a...
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| Arnold J. Toynbee |
History is a vision of God's creation on the move....
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| Augustine Birrell |
Libraries are not made, they grow....
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| Augustine Birrell |
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print mak...
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| Augustine Birrell |
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in th...
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| Augustine Birrell |
Is this true or only clever?...
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| Augustine Birrell |
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand boo...
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| Augustine Birrell |
That great dust-heap called 'history'....
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| A. Whitney Brown |
The past actually happened but history is only what someon...
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| Barbara Tuchman |
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed ...
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| Barry Goldwater |
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is lik...
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| Benjamin Disraeli |
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. On...
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| Byron R. White |
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the rig...
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| Calvin Coolidge |
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any h...
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| Charles de Gaulle |
My dear and old country, here we are once again together f...
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| Charles de Gaulle |
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will r...
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| Charles de Gaulle |
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 k...
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| Christopher Columbus |
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World....
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| Dan Quayle |
It's a very good historical book about history....
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| Dan Quayle |
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive p...
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| Dante Alighieri |
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast...
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| David M. Shoup |
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours o...
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| Desmond Tutu |
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have ch...
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| Dick Gregory |
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, becau...
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| Dionysius |
History is philosophy teaching by example....
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| Douglas MacArthur |
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of...
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| Douglas MacArthur |
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contri...
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| Douglas MacArthur |
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at ...
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| Douglas MacArthur |
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but...
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieuten...
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| Earl of Chesterfield |
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning h...
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| Edward Gibbon |
History is indeed little more than the register of the cri...
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| Edward Kennedy |
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you...
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| Edward R. Murrow |
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home....
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| Edward R. Murrow |
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts....
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| Elizabeth II |
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or a...
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| Epicurus |
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmount...
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| Evita Peron |
I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it bur...
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| Evita Peron |
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I ju...
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| Evita Peron |
Time is my greatest enemy....
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| Evita Peron |
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas....
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| Evita Peron |
There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them ju...
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| Fidel Castro |
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I...
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| Francois Mitterrand |
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the wo...
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| Frank Herbert |
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek disc...
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the...
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| George M. Humphrey |
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad ...
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| George Santayana |
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat...
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| George Santayana |
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened...
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| George S. Patton |
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood....
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| George S. Patton |
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting...
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| George Washington Carver |
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, ...
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| George W. Bush |
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out y...
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| George Will |
World War II was the last government program that really w...
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| George Will |
The future has a way of arriving unannounced....
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| George Will |
Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as imp...
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| Gerald R. Ford |
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficie...
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| Gertrude Stein |
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat...
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| G. Gordon Liddy |
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught mysel...
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| Grover Cleveland |
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor...
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| Henry A. Kissinger |
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own natur...
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| Henry B. Adams |
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit....
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| Henry Ford |
History is more or less bunk....
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| Henry James |
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a littl...
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| Herbert Hoover |
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depr...
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| Herbert Hoover |
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party...
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| Herbert Hoover |
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on...
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| H. G. Wells |
Human history becomes more and more a race between educati...
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| H. L. Mencken |
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist....
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| H. L. Mencken |
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age....
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| Horace Sutton |
Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time....
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| Hugo Black |
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their cour...
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| Irving R. Kaufman |
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the dai...
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| Irving R. Kaufman |
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their te...
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| Irving R. Kaufman |
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever inv...
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| Irving R. Kaufman |
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trus...
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| Jackie Kennedy |
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren'...
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| Jacques Chirac |
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone ...
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| Jacques Chirac |
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the...
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| James A. Baldwin |
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in th...
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| James Polk |
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity ...
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| James Polk |
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our border...
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| James Stockdale |
They can shout down the head of the physics department at ...
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| Jessamyn West |
The past is really almost as much a work of the imaginatio...
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| John F. Kennedy |
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only th...
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| John F. Kennedy |
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help...
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| John F. Kennedy |
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of ...
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| John F. Kennedy |
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic an...
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| John F. Kennedy |
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will n...
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| John Foster Dulles |
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student rio...
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| John Quincy Adams |
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seem...
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| John Quincy Adams |
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my gen...
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| John W. Gardner |
History never looks like history when you are living throu...
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| Joseph Stalin |
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "p...
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| Juan Antonio Samaranch |
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in p...
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| Julius Caesar |
I came, I saw, I conquered....
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| Kofi Annan |
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling bill...
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| Konrad Adenauer |
History is the sum total of things that could have been av...
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| Lance Morrow |
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963...
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| Louis D. Brandeis |
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of ...
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| Louis D. Brandeis |
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been decla...
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| Lyndon B. Johnson |
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. Th...
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| Lyndon B. Johnson |
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Pot...
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| Lyndon B. Johnson |
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me....
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| Mao Tse-Tung |
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously ta...
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| Margaret Thatcher |
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and m...
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| Margaret Thatcher |
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact ...
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| Margaret Thatcher |
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; ...
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| Margaret Thatcher |
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the ter...
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| Marge Piercy |
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have....
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| Mark Twain |
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid...
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| Napoleon Bonaparte |
History is the version of past events that people have dec...
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| Napoleon Bonaparte |
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever....
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| Napoleon Bonaparte |
What is history but a fable agreed upon?...
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| Neil Armstrong |
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind....
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| Nikita Khrushchev |
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace....
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| Norman Cousins |
History is a vast early warning system....
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| Oliver North |
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniform...
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories...
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| Peter Berger |
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recoll...
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| Prince Charles |
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless ...
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| Richard E. Lingenfelter |
For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimm...
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| Richard M. Nixon |
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a pa...
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| Richard M. Nixon |
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting mo...
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| Richard M. Nixon |
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it...
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| Richard M. Nixon |
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Theref...
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| Richard M. Nixon |
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the...
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| Ronald Reagan |
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offs...
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| Samuel Butler |
God cannot alter the past, though historians can....
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| Sandra Day O'Connor |
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core c...
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| Stansfield Turner |
We talked for a few more minutes and then the president tu...
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| Susan B. Anthony |
Failure is impossible....
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| Tacitus |
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom th...
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| Ted Koppel |
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their int...
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| Theodore White |
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago ...
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| Winston Churchill |
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it....
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| Thomas Jefferson |
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of...
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| Tony Blair |
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder ...
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| Vladimir Lenin |
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revol...
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| Wendell Berry |
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their ...
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| William Butler Yeats |
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of batt...
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| William Halsey |
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circu...
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| William James |
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a b...
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| William Manchester |
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, an...
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| William Manchester |
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have...
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| William Manchester |
It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I convers...
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| William O. Douglas |
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to prot...
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| William O. Douglas |
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge t...
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| Woodrow Wilson |
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the stren...
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