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History — that little sewer where man loves to wallow. - Fra

History — that little sewer where man loves to wallow. – Francis Ponge

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Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnamable. – Francis Ponge

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For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell. – George E. Wilson

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History

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. – Novak Djokovic

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History

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage – the union between one man and one woman – has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nations history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. – Jim DeMint

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History

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. – John Perkins

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History

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. – Honore de Balzac

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I really believe that we dont have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both. – John Poindexter

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I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When youre quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, constantly as the expert in the business people assume youre a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image. – Barbara Corcoran

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If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game…. In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. – Stanley Rous, 1952

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