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    A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

by Randall Jarrell Found in: History Quotes,
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

by Nikita S. Khrushchev Found in: History Quotes,
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While we read history we make history.

While we read history we make history.

by George William Curtis Found in: History Quotes,
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The men who make history have not time to write it.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

by Metternich Found in: History Quotes,
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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

by Paul Dickson Found in: History Quotes,
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History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

by Augustine Birrell Found in: History Quotes,
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To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.

To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.

by Orson Wells Found in: History Quotes,
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History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and read more

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

by Henry Ford Found in: History Quotes,
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