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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli
She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker.
Rodney Dangerfield
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael
Patriotism ruins history.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton
I went to a gay bar, they wanted proof of sex so I showed them, they said it wasn't enough.
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
John Podhoretz
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubblingover boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is
Ernest Hemingway
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
Bruce Springsteen
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
David Attenborough
But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
Jim Wallis
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Abdul Kalam
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.
Kurt Vonnegut
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus
She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Irving R. Kaufman
Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
Eric Liu
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
James K. Polk
