#story

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom. ↗

— Jean Bodin

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#brave man #down #future #him #history

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#choice #free #free men #history #men

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. ↗

— George Eliot

#interpreters #lapse #longer #rather #read

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. ↗

— Epicurus

#difficulty #glory #greater #more #surmounting

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#certain #certain level #exploitation #harsh #hollywood

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

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The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

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One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

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