To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.


Harry S Truman

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I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.
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They are a bunch of coocoo lunatic sons of bitches surrealists.
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When Harry Truman threw that bomb, I blessed that guy. We didn't have to go.
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Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?
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If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, tou...
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
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I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
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Sorry. Sorry. Don't hit. Bitches be scary when they hit.
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Hell will be Heaven with Friends, Heaven will be Hell without them.
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What do you want me to do? Let those sons of bitches stand up there and think on my time.
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Hell no, I'm not glad to see them. They should have been here days ago. I ain't glad to see 'em. I'l...
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The world of a writer is a world of imagination reduced to letters
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Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
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My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
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For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are bein...
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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
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I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
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You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
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If history was written about his-story (the victor) is not accurate history
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It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
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Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them.
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Just because history is written by the victor does not necessarily mean that it is false. Therefore...
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History is us and we are history. History is written not with the pen but by our actions, what we do...
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Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone.
He will only be gone from the school when none here or lo...
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Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritatio...
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History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
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They say the elections would not happen, and they did. They say the constitution will not be written...
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The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a...
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Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell!
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Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell!
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People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful w...
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
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Why are you so angry with your Duckling, harry? Don't you like it when I open my legs wide to you? C...
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This kind of situation is something most people don't expect, ... I know I didn't expect it back whe...
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HARRY: "Oh, Draco . . . we can’t. We can’t use it."

Draco looks up at Harry, and f...
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books t...
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They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit o...
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F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will b...
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These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that histo...
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I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
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I would hate to be like little Harry Connick, being used for propaganda. I like Harry, but that's no...
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I would hate to be like little Harry Connick, being used for propaganda. I like Harry, but that's no...
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When I look at these prices, it's just mind-boggling that our government has done nothing to help pe...
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th...
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
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I feel very strongly that history has mostly been written by men, and even when it is not prejudiced...
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious futur...
HARRY S TRUMAN
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little pl...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remai...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Tita...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Do you know why they call it 'PMS'? Because 'Mad Cow Disease' was already taken.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back
HARRY S TRUMAN
There Are Three Kinds of People - Those Who Can Count and Those Who Can't
HARRY S TRUMAN
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure
HARRY S TRUMAN
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will r...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both si...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of rig...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. [We] se...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Don't hate yourself in the morning. Sleep till noon.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an eig...
HARRY S TRUMAN
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
HARRY S TRUMAN
The 'C' students run the world.
HARRY S TRUMAN
When a leader is in the Democratic party he's a boss; when he's in the Republican party he's a leade...
HARRY S TRUMAN
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -...
HARRY S TRUMAN
People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo
HARRY S TRUMAN
I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a s...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one
HARRY S TRUMAN
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same tim...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
HARRY S TRUMAN
That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based on the honor of...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S TRUMAN
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determin...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog
HARRY S TRUMAN
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
HARRY S TRUMAN
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it
HARRY S TRUMAN
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever a...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I don't want it torn down. I think it's the greatest monstrosity in America.
HARRY S TRUMAN
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a ...
HARRY S TRUMAN