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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.


Mangosuthu Buthelezi


#culture #destinies #destiny #history #language

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.


Albert Camus


#between #correct #everything #half-way #history

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.


Albert Camus


#encounter #happy #history #misery #periods

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.


Thomas Carlyle


#great #great man #great men #history #lives

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.


Thomas Carlyle


#done #great #history #majority #passed

I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy.


Jay Carney


#america #back #economy #first #first time

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.


John le Carre


#confidence #greatest #her #history #i

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'


Tia Carrere


#animated #disney #eternal #feature #history

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.


Angela Carter


#book #bring #experience #history #like

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.


Jimmy Carter


#carter #center #disease #earth #elimination






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