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History
«If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth»
Author: Gerald Vann
| About:
Church,
History,
Truth
| Keywords:
distorting, History of the, scandals, succession
«If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Collaboration,
History,
Humility,
Science,
Team work
| Keywords:
further, giants, shoulders
«In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom»
Author: Mary Ritter Beard
| About:
Achievement,
Being a Woman,
Civil rights,
History,
Possessions,
Women
| Keywords:
achievements, emphasis, martyrdom, possessions, quest, quest for, wrongs
«If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians»
Author: Warren Buffett
| About:
History
| Keywords:
game, librarian, librarians, richest, There was, The Game, The Librarian
«If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
happens, history, incapable, learning, repeats, unexpected
«In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Government,
History,
War
| Keywords:
governments, hatched, hatches, hatching, independent, interests, pernicious
«Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
crimes, indeed, misfortunes, Nothing More, tableau
