"Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it."

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Source : ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

Andrew Dickson White

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“When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.”
“[Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.”
“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”

Source : "Movies to keep you awake at night" by Scott Bowles, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 24, 2002.
“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
“So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.”
“In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.”
“Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses.”
“There is a basic truth which man can know and which can transform his life if he will become the embodiment of it.”

Source : Roy Eugene Davis (1971). “Darshan: the vision of light”

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