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Famous Quotes
"The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do."
More quotes about History
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius on History -
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
Abraham Lincoln on History -
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
Mahatma Gandhi on History -
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt on History -
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson on History
More quotes by David Herbert Lawrence
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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."
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"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just."
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"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."
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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."