"History is what we bring to it, not……" — Robert Harris
"History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events."
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62 Quotes by Robert Harris
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In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling…
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Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting…
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I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in…
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A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound.…
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The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.
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Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most…
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What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
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Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for…
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It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only…
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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to…
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More Bring Quotes
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
— Aristophanes
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
— Richard Bach
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
— Jane Austen
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where…
— Bill Ayers
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
— Francis Bacon
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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's…
— Alec Baldwin
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People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.
— Stephen Baldwin
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