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«That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Majority,
Minority
| Keywords:
demonstrated, demonstrates, demonstrating, desires, History of, History of the, inhumanity, injustice, injustices, majority, minority, page, The History, The History of
«Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.»
«Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.»
Author: Teilhard de Chardin
(Geologist, Mystic, Philosopher, Priest)
| Keywords:
discovered, energies, gravity, harness, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, History of, History of the, History of the world, mastering, second time, second world, someday, The History, The History of, tides, waves, winds
«LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of Stanford University, maintains with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (_Thaddeus Polandensis_) or Polliwig --_Maria pseudo-hirsuta_. For an exhaustive description and history of the Tadpole consult the famous monograph of Jane Potter, _Thaddeus of Warsaw_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aquatic, consult, description, Dr., Dr, exhaustive, History of the, job description, leviathan, maintains, monograph, potter, pseudo, tadpole
«Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Movies,
Sports
| Keywords:
Bad art, Bad movie, history of art, History of the, History of the world, karate, Martial, movies
«I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.»
Author: Robert Frost
| Keywords:
carried, George, George Washington, History of the, History of the world, Washington
«Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, claiming, corresponding, duties, History of the, inherent, occasion, parliamentary, privileges, records, Rights and privileges, Rights of Man, sophism, stated, The Rights of Man
«No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
biography, History of, History of the, History of the world, in vain, The History, The History of, vain
«Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
decades, History of the, replacing, sounded, The Social, The Western, Western
«I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Future,
History,
Past
| Keywords:
History of, History of the, The History, The History of
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