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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.


Gustav Flaubert

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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
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JAMIE RICHARDSON This would have been a good move for us. Our first home of our own.
MARCIEAU MATTHEWS That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention...
GARTH STEIN We all have our own weirdness that makes us unique.
MJ CHRISTINE A lot of times family business people are there without having been out on their own. All of us demo...
JEFF DEBOER Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE Our comments have always been that we're following our own game plan.
ALAN MARKS history of our times.
ALLEN WEINSTEIN Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our ...
GARTH STEIN The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've co...
WYNTON MARSALIS I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, t...
LUCINDA RILEY This makes it significantly easier for us to take ownership and control of our own health care infor...
LINDA REBROVICK We have always been appointing and consecrating our own bishops. This is what we must stick to.
YE XIAOWEN Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.
JOHN DYKES As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world ...
BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
JOHN DRYDEN Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism.
TOM TANCREDO The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH This is the real story. This has always been about our community, our employees, and the loyal custo...
BETTY BRADY In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a h...
MANUEL PUIG We've known all along, we've just had a feeling, like this is our year. But this [win] has to prove ...
JUSTIN TURNER Our deeds travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.
AMBER GARIBAY We've had our share of close games this year. All of our games have been like that. I think that hel...
DON SHOWALTER We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesti...
STEPHEN JAY GOULD At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textboo...
JO BONNER We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
KEVIN SPACEY Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts
GEORGE SANTAYANA Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are
GEORGE ELIOT History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
SCOTT WESTERFELD What makes the vanity of others insufferable to us is that it wounds our own.
FRANCIOUS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE We are all imperfect. We have biases we are blind to seeing. We are ignorant in our own arenas. We h...
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections...
BRYANT MCGILL I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has ind...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has ind...
JOE LIEBERMAN It feels good that they always remember us like this. Our family has always had this closeness.
BERTHA STANEK The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.
JIM LEACH We believe this process of forming stars in a cluster was exactly the same thing that happened with ...
ERICK T. YOUNG We believe this process of forming stars in a cluster was exactly the same thing that happened with ...
ERICK YOUNG What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without g...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I think what makes us good is our balanced attack. People have to cover the outside and inside. Sheb...
FREDA CRAFT People of the same community don't have the same thoughts, our different thoughts and feelings makes...
KOWSALAPATHY Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
DEBI GLIORI Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimi...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
PAUL HARVEY We're a tough team to beat. When we win the doubles point, that really makes a difference for us. Th...
BRIAN BOLAND People haven't been picking us all season. We weren't even picked in our own [Pacific 10] conference...
CEDRIC BOZEMAN Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our i...
LORETTA NAPOLEONI In times of war let us remember our soldiers; in times of peace let us remember our soldiers
KEVIN I.E2 GBOBOH All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) This is a victory for home rule. The numerous people who have something to say about this have basic...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON ...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN ...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN On matters of race, South Carolina has a tough history. We all know that. Many of us have seen it in...
NIKKI HALEY "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm...
THOMAS JEFFERSON There've been a couple of times, I've gone in the closet and had a good hard cry, ... There's been s...
AMY GRANT Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in ou...
MOTHER ANGELICA Doing the right thing for the people we serve has always been one of our core values. We regret thos...
ASEEM MITAL I'm pleased to honor our heritage by joining The History Channel en espanol to bring the history and...
ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these
PAUL HARVEY Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize ...
JACKSON BROWNE This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of e...
LIVY There is a long history of conflict between us. The Preventive Security always tries to demean our m...
ABU ABIR It's important for us to see and to know this is a part of our history, not just black history but A...
JEFFERSON RUSSELL We can create our own history,
JAMES ALLAN To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
ANDY AND LARRY WACHOWSKI Everyone is perfect it's our own imaginations and expectations that makes us not to be.
BOLDEN KEKANA To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
MATT DORAN Flowers magnetize us with their beauty and reflect back to us our own essence. Their qualities magni...
KATIE HESS Everything has been done behind our backs. That's what makes us suspicious.
LARRY ANDERSON When we allow our hands and our minds to wither in our efforts to control our own habits, our own hu...
GENE CRAWFORD Acknowledging our ignorance can give us the strength to conquer and extend our limit.
JAN JANSEN They relate kind of in our own heads, ... They're always like nostalgia or inside jokes. They have a...
PETE WENTZ They relate kind of in our own heads. They're always like nostalgia or inside jokes. They have a con...
PETE WENTZ Our offense has been shaky at times both games. We have to be better this week.
BLAKE POWERS They're part of our history. That's why we came under full sail, so people could see us and have a l...
ROBIN KROHN DAVID It's a good feeling to be a part of this. People here have been great about coming to us as an indep...
IVAN LANDRY The people of Cascade County have been so generous in sending help to the areas affected by the hurr...
GARY OWEN It has shown us all how our faith -- whatever our religion -- can inspire us to work together in fri...
QUEEN ELIZABETH The entire team did a great job of staying focused on clients, and not getting distracted. The quali...
BRIAN SHAW He's always been there for me and the kids. We've had our share of hard times, too.
HEIDI NORAAS It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beaut...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Anxiety and Afraid of being rejected, have always been the killer/s of our dreams....

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DEYTH BANGER History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darne...
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion;...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like s...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ..She still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did ever...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the ...
GUSTAV KLIMT After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to ti...
GUSTAV KLIMT There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
GUSTAV STICKLEY I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of t...
GUSTAV MAHLER Nihil est in intellectu, quod non fuerit in historia, et omne, quod fuit in historia, deberet esse i...
GUSTAV SPET A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and di...
GUSTAV MAHLER The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and work...
GUSTAV MAHLER Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man who...
GUSTAV KRUPP