Quote by Samuel Butler
God cannot alter the past, but historians can. - Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler

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Faith
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. – Samuel Butler

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Media
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Other Quotes from
History
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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa

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History

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and weve been in wars ever since. Were not a pacific people. – James Lee Burke

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History

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. – Nancy Pelosi

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History

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. – Grandma Moses

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History

Random Quotes

In Hollywood, if you dont have happiness, you send out for it. – Rex Reed

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Happiness

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because Im human and Im normal – well, semi-normal. – Johnny Depp

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Time

Youre talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face. – Erik Qualman

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communication

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. – Confucius

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Change