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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
Quote, saying and phrase by: George Frost Kennan
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Nadine Gordimer
The verb ‘to love’ in Persian is ‘to have a friend.’ ‘I love you’ translated literally is ‘I have you as a friend,’ and ‘I don’t like you’ simply means ‘I don’t have you as a friend.’
Quote, saying and phrase by: Shusha Guppy
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Gifford Pinchot
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Aldous Huxley
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Edward Gibbon
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Sir George Savile
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
Quote, saying and phrase by: W. Somerset Maugham
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Peter De Vries
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Gelett Burgess