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history Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman | history

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.

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history Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell | history

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.

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history Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey | history

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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Albert Camus history

Albert Camus | 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.

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Albert Camus history

Albert Camus | history

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.

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Harry S. Truman history

Harry S. Truman | history

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.

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history Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt | history

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

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history Robert Frost

Robert Frost | history

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.

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Henry David Thoreau history

Henry David Thoreau | history

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

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Aristotle history

Aristotle | history

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.

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