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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.
Thomas Sowell
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
Maria Montessori
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Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.


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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.


Thomas Carlyle
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.


Stendhal
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.


Tryon Edwards
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In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
Walter Gropius
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I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.
Taylor Swift
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I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
George Catlin
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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.


Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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I've been working on the lost history of technical women.


Megan Smith
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.


Victor Hugo
I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.
Rocky Graziano
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The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Robert Menzies
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
Lawrence Lessig
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge
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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Robert Kennedy
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.


Gerrit Smith
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