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There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

Amy Carmichael
women victory history

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

Anais Nin
blindness prejudice history
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. by Anatole France

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Anatole France
book lying history
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. by Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anatole France
book lying history

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Andre Gide
philosophy history art
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. by Andre Malraux

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux
philosophy history art

Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.

Andre Suares
philosophy history art

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

Andrea Dworkin
body history blood

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Andrew Marr
lessons history facts

What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.

Andrew Roberts
winter europe history

With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.

Andrew Roberts
guilt historical history
I am not here for women only, but also for women. by Angela Merkel

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

Angela Merkel
men-women women history

History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through withits twenty-fifth revolution before reading much about it. When it is over, some one whose business it is, will be sure to give you in a digested form all that it concerns you to know, and save you trouble, confusion, and time. If you will follow this plan, you will be surprised to find how new and fresh your interest in what you read will become.

Anna Brackett
reading giving history

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

Anna Komnene
strong taken history
It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers. by Anthony Anderson

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

Anthony Anderson
historical soldier history
No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others. by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
philosophy history art
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will... by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
fire men history
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events. by Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Antoine Rivarol
rich events history

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Anton Chekhov
conflict battle history

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

Anton Walbrook
war history people
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