#history

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fingers #hand #his #history #out

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great. ↗

— Larry Wall

#american #american history #away #get #give

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#constantly #details #find #food #found

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#against #death #history #inscriptions #monuments

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that? ↗

— Jim Wallis

#appointed #been #believes #careful #god

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. ↗

— Emma Watson

#degree #fulfill #history #i #interested

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#history #i #know #must #oh

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#american history #citizens #created #financially #generation

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. ↗

— Cornel West

#arrogance #culture #forth #had #history

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97. ↗

— John Kasich

#amount #architect #balanced #balanced budget #budget