"It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes."

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Source : Joseph Stalin (1976). “History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Bolsheviks”

Joseph Stalin

“Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.”
“I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.”
“We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable when the facts don't warrant that.”

Source : "The Fairness Doctrine". www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2004.
“If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.”

Source : "The Many Voices of Carlos Alazraqui" by Ryan Ball, www.animationmagazine.net. February 17, 2006.
“[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one of the biggest splits in Christianity and decades of religious wars. He went so far as to praise Luther, who was once considered a heretic in the church, as a great reformer. So what he's been doing with other Christian churches is trying to heal past wounds and work together toward a shared view of their history.”
“It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.”

Source : Anthony Collins (1790). “A philosophical inquiry concerning human liberty”, p.32
“The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.”
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2013). “Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin”, p.187, Penguin

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