"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
-Thomas Hardy
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.“
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"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
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"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."
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"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
-Babatunde Olatunji
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Winston Churchill
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
-Auguste Rodin
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
-David McCullough
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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