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You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama

Hope, Life, Courage

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Love, Dreams, Hope

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers

God, Today, Tomorrow

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Nor, Necessary

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle

Nature, Poetry, Rather

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost

Power, Away, Whole

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau

Tree, Connected, Apple

History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw

Said, Learn, Hegel

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Worth, Left

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell

Good, Past, Social

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy

Change, Work, Small

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

Happy, Misery, Encounter

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey

Imagination, Live

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Worth, Name

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

Sun, Between, Believing

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

Courage, Change, Leadership

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

Poetry, Truth, Nearer

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve Jobs

Life, Down, Living

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin

Learning, Long, Learned

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

Past, Game, Richest

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman

Government, Free, Far

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt Romney

Family, Health, Food

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama

Simple, Same, Fair

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx

Men, Fight, Nothing

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