"Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar."

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Source : Jefferson Davis (1876). “Scotland & the Scottish People: An Address Delivered in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's-Day, 1875”

Jefferson Davis

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“When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.”
“Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.”

Source : Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.43, Harmony
“life is a series of sweet coincidences”

Source : Mohammed Hanif (2008). “A Case of Exploding Mangoes”
“At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.”
“I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.”
“Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.”

Source : Nicholas Ling, John Bodenham (1722). “Wits Common-wealth:, Or, A Treasury of Divine, Moral, Historical and Political Admonitions, Similies, and Sentences: For the Use of Schools”, p.53
“The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.”
“If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.”

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