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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. — Paul Valery

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition. — Eugene Rivers

That great dust-heap called 'history'. — Augustine Birrell

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence. — Harold Bloom

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse. — Liz Curtis Higgs

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. — G.K. Chesterton

The STORY has one great advantage over the HISTORY, and that is that once you learn the story, you never have to learn anything new! The — Tom E. Dotson

History is the great propagator of doubt. — A.J.P. Taylor

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him. — Charles Spurgeon

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. — Milton Friedman

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker. — Seth Godin

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. — Dave Malloy

History has shown that from times of great distress are sown the seeds of opportunity, promise, and renewal. — Sameet M. Kumar

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. — Mike Gordon

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. — Elon Musk

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. — Florian Znaniecki

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? — Lord Byron

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable. — Peter Ustinov

There lived great souls in history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history. — Lord Acton

I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history. — Kathryn Lasky

Throughout history every great empire has collapsed...there have been no exceptions. — Joe Barfield

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach. — Seneca The Younger

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times. — Charlton Heston

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type. — Otto Weininger

In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution. — Robert Wright

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. — Thomas Carlyle

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. — Julie Andrews

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable. — Balthazar Getty

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. — Miguel De Cervantes

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. — Gilbert Murray

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. — Douglas MacArthur

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution? — Matt Damon

Looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were. — James S.A. Corey

The necessity of the universal and the particular is a central aspect of liberal education, and is likewise joined in the great narratives of history. — Ellis Washington

Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United. — Johan Cruijff

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill. — Herbert M. Shelton

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. — Eugene V. Debs

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. — Samuel Johnson

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed. — Tacitus

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. — Daniel Nayeri

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. — Antonia Fraser

From little seeds great flowers grow. — Jessie Burton

If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history — Will Durant

It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me. — Nerlens Noel

If a theme runs through the history of Florida, it is this: something's great, and someone comes along to mess it up. — Eliot Kleinberg

Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music. — Christian Scott

History has a way of forgetting the mistresses of great men. Even if they have talent. — Lynn Cullen

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history. — Rick Riordan

If you have a great product but no one knows about it, it's history. — Tony Fernandes

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. — Richard M. Nixon

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me. — Marianne Williamson

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish. — John C. Maxwell

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals. — Oscar Robertson

Elizabeth Cady read the nation's great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women? — Joy Hakim

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God. — Muhammad Ali

For whom do you cry, my son?" the Great Spirit asked.
"I do not know."
"Yes, you do. — P.J. Parker

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. — Victor Hugo

We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again. — Margaret Thatcher

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision. — Kelly Miller

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves. — P.J. Sullivan

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. — Theodore Roosevelt

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. — Allan Sherman

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. — Simone De Beauvoir

Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele. — Chuck Klosterman

I like fiction and the history...Great! — Idelys Izquierdo Laboy

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly. — Nursultan Nazarbayev

Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing - - that a great enlightenment is coming. — Dan Brown

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history. — William Halsey

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history. — Ron Chernow

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. — Peggy Noonan

And who would deny that the consumer demand for ever more stuff at ever cheaper prices is one of the great deterministic forces in history? — Michael Lewis

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history. — Harry S. Dent

We might have been a free and great people together. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Only if we understand our past, can we move forward to a brighter future. — Barbara Post-Askin

History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history — Mohammed Sekouty

We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all. — Gordon B. Hinckley

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met — Raji Singh

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. — Leigh Hunt

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in the tiny struggles of individual peoples that the great movements of history are most truly revealed. — Rosa Luxemburg

Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans. — Christian Louboutin

Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? — Tom Stoppard

We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The — Cinda Williams Chima

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. — Thomas Sowell

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. — Jeremy Grantham

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history. — Assata Shakur

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. — Umberto Eco

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers. — H.L. Mencken

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone. — Marion Woodman