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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.


Conor Cruise O'Brien


#flicker #his #history #horror #indignation

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.


Ed O'Neill


#did #football #history #i #interested

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.


P. J. O'Rourke


#assassinate #brief #character #death #election

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.


P. J. O'Rourke


#certain #certainly #east #enduring #history

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.


P. J. O'Rourke


#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.


P. J. O'Rourke


#answers #any #because #delve #essentially

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.


Kenzaburo Oe


#asian countries #been #countries #had #history

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.


Al Oerter


#history #i #my own #other #own

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.


George S. Patton


#blood #gallon #pint #saves #sweat

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.


Eckhard Pfeiffer


#either #end #history #making #today






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