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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
History, a distillation of rumour. - Thomas Carlyle

History, a distillation of rumour. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Persuasion
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Thomas Carlyle
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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Reason
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Thomas Carlyle
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Other Quotes from
History
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Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, Im optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. – Jared Diamond

Category:
History

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

Category:
History

History is a vision of Gods creation on the move. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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History

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. – Rosa Luxemburg

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History

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Weve got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace. – Al DAmato

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So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants. – Robert Mueller

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Intelligence

What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? – J.B. Priestley, about Americans

Category:
Television

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought. – Tom Lantos

Category:
Leadership