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History, a distillation of rumour. - Thomas Carlyle

History, a distillation of rumour. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men
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Thomas Carlyle
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. – Thomas Carlyle

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Hell
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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History

History passes the final judgment. – Sidney Poitier

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History

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in womens history. – Antonia Fraser

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History

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs. – King Abdullah II

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History

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Ive always believed in God. I also think thats the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when youre in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. – Stephen King

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow — I have still joy in the midst of all these things. – Confucius

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