"We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events."

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Source : Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

Gerda Lerner

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“Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.”

Source : James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.64
“There's never been a greater game than football.”
“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
“Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.”

Source : "Mormon Feminists Surprised By New Wording Referring To Women As ‘Blessed Disciples Of Jesus’" by Peggy Fletcher Stack, September 29, 2014.
“I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.”
“I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.”
“Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.”
“But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.”

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