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136 quotesIt is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
Superstition
American Proverb
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Emotions
Honore De Balzac
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Passion
Honore De Balzac
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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
Life and Living
Sir James M. Barrie
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Heroes and Heroism
John Barth
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Story and Story-Telling
Walter Benjamin
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Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
Facts
James Gordon Bennett
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
History and Historians
Otto Von Bismarck
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The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
Consciousness
Joseph Brodsky
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Change
Warren Buffett
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The Thames is liquid history.
History and Historians
John Burns
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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
Life and Living
Leo Buscaglia
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History is the devil's scripture.
History and Historians
Lord Byron
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Anecdotes
Italo Calvino
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History is the distillation of rumor.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Biography
Thomas Carlyle
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Greatness
Thomas Carlyle
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Story and Story-Telling
Raymond Chandler
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History is but a confused heap of facts.
History and Historians
Lord Chesterfield
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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
Selfishness
Julio Cortazar
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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Libraries
Norman Cousins
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Imagination
Stephen R. Covey
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Martyrdom
Aleister Crowley
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While we read history we make history.
History and Historians
George William Curtis
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun