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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
The secret of life is in art.
Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent
The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.
The history of a people are found in its songs.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Freedom is a system based on courage.
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
I was France.
All history is a lie!
History's a resource.
Everything may happen.
