| C. Northcote Parkinson |
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its comp...
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| Hannah Arendt |
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom....
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| Hannah Arendt |
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true....
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| Arnold J. Toynbee |
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between wor...
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| Arnold J. Toynbee |
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably b...
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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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| Arthur M. Schlesinger |
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory...
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| Barbara Tuchman |
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed ...
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| Barbara Tuchman |
War is the unfolding of miscalculations....
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't...
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technolo...
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all ...
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it....
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought ...
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| Edward Gibbon |
History is indeed little more than the register of the cri...
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| Edward Gibbon |
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities....
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| Francesco Guicciardini |
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, ne...
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| G. M. Trevelyan |
Education... has produced a vast population able to read b...
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| Henry B. Adams |
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ig...
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| Henry B. Adams |
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers...
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| Henry B. Adams |
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit....
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| James Harvey Robinson |
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional org...
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| Lord Acton |
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to gove...
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| Lord Acton |
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end....
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| Lord Acton |
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never...
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| Lord Acton |
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolut...
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| Tacitus |
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader....
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| Tacitus |
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom th...
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| Thomas B. Macaulay |
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a s...
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| Thomas B. Macaulay |
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry,...
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| Will Durant |
Education is the transmission of civilization....
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| Will Durant |
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance....
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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 Manchester |
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach lik...
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