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The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,… — G. M. Trevelyan
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and… — George Santayana
It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into… — Francois Jacob
If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you… — Aleister Crowley
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. — Sun Tzu
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change. — Milton Friedman
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get… — Dennis Miller
We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the… — Paul Twitchell
If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to… — Rowan Williams
There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they… — James A. Baldwin
I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the… — Julianne Moore
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. — Henry David Thoreau
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they… — Alfred Korzybski
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process… — Stephen Jay Gould
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up… — Charles Lyell
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons… — Sun Tzu
Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility. — Radhanath Swami
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as… — Aldous Huxley
Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their… — Henry Selick
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that… — Kazuo Ishiguro
In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time,… — Dan Ariely
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments. — Kaki King

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