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Quote by Norman Mailer
Its not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions

Its not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. – Norman Mailer

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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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Minorities
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer

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Conformity
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Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out. – Norman Mailer

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Exercise
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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. – Harold Wilson

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History

Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. – John Clive, Not By Fact Alone

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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. – Queen Elizabeth II

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Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death. – Peter Conrad

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water. – Proverb

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There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion. – John McDonald

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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. – Thomas Paine

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