"Happy the people whose annals are tiresome." — Baron de Montesquieu

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• The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on… — Unknown Author
• Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and… — Thomas Jefferson
• Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and… — Hugh Miller
• Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books! — Thomas Carlyle
• Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire… — Tony Snow
• If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are… — Benjamin Disraeli
• This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as… — Pope Leo X
• In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us… — Charles Shaar Murray
• To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty… — James Hutton
• Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code — Martin Fowler
• In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul… — Vito Fossella

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