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You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished read more
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be read more
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes
History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one read more
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up read more
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory read more
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.
