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in history
«America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.»
Author: George Clemenceau
| About:
America and Americans,
Civilization
| Keywords:
barbarism, degeneration, directly, interval, in history, miraculously, usual
«For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
afterward, cigarette, for the first time, in history
«Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns»
«He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| Keywords:
George, George Washington, in history, purest, Washington
«Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
| Keywords:
analyze, analyzed, history of art, in history, judgments, qualified, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, readers, relevant, stick, stick to, subject, uniquely
«Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
catastrophe, catastrophes, described, heading, in history, steadily
«Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Medicine
| Keywords:
Advances, agriculture, in history, medicine, saved, vastly
«Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
admittedly, appeasement, in history, lesson, liberal, other than, refuse, specter, specters, well-meaning
«Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
annals, blank, blanked, blanker, blanks, in history