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History Quotes by Charles de Gaulle
- History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
- Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human…
- In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented…
- My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
- In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have…
- I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from…
- I was France.
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
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- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough