#history

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

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We are set to make very bad history. ↗

— Tom Wilson

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History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long. ↗

— Christopher Bond

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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

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I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

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Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group. ↗

— Harold Evans

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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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