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History
«Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God»
Author: Evelyn Underhill
| About:
Christianity,
History
| Keywords:
most unattractive, pressure, retrospect, tasks, unattractive
«Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life»
Author: Fernand Braudel
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History
| Keywords:
contradictions, despite, framework, paradoxes, recapture, recaptured, relocated
«France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.»
«Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Change,
History
| Keywords:
bend, generation, History of, portion, small change, The History, The History of, total
«For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.»
«Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
History,
Obedience
| Keywords:
disobedience, has-been, history, original, originals, progress, rebellion, Rebellions, the rebellion, virtue
«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