"The men who make history have not time to write it."

Metternich, Klemens Von on history and historians   

"One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other."

Hugo, Victor on history and historians
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"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

Kennedy, Robert F. on history and historians
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"History is a better guide than good intentions."

Kirkpatrick, Jeane on history and historians   

"History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves."

Leonard, George on history and historians   

"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."

Lincoln, Abraham on history and historians
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"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Marx, Karl on history and historians
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"I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on history and historians   

"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel
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"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."

Clark, Glenn on attitude
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"However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure."

Unknown, Source on advertising
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"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel
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"Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -- in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped -- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

Grahame, Kenneth on automobiles   

"If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame."

Unknown, Source on blame
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"He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined."

Twain, Mark on dance and dancing
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"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"Don't dance on a volcano."

Proverb, French on caution   

"We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance."

Graham, Martha on dance and dancing   

"Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death."

Dowling, Colette on relationship
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"Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody."

Unknown, Source on education
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"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

Franklin, Benjamin on certainty
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"It's never too late to start planning for the future."

Unknown, Source on planning   

"If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks."

Unknown, Source on risk   

"There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen."

Unknown, Source on listening   

"America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world."

Ferber, Edna on america   

"Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners."

Burke, Edmund on america   

"Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach."

Navratilova, Martina on america   

"America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick."

Abish, Walter on america
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"Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

Adams, Henry Brooks on politics
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"As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore."

Adams, Henry Brooks on america   

"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."

Adams, Henry Brooks on society   

"Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did."

Steffens, Lincoln on risk   

"Everything is sweetened by risk."

Smith, Alexander on risk   

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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

Smith, Alexander on love
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"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

Mencken, H. L. on love
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"One who cares is one who listens."

Clarke, J. Richard on listening
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"If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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