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The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results. Shaun Tan
Wisdom History Creative Mistake Sometimes Accidents Way Draw Logic More Only Inventions Results Write Part Concept Arriving Than Any The History Of Realise Much Successful Act Creative Act Full Unintended Serendipity Original Necessary
Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people. Tawakkol Karman
History Justice Women People Strong Free Nation Older Rulers Muslim Thousand Thousand Years About Examples Having More Through Attained Leaders Islamic Scientists Were Years Years Ago Accountable Times Than Many Professionals
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. Ted Nugent
History Gun Important Weaponry Red Most Without Question American The History Of The Most Important
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. Walter Cronkite
History Vote Writing Impossible First Important Reading Understanding Past Rank Must Citizens Share Arithmetic Most Without Issues Subjects Expected Curriculum The Most Important Which Republic
For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy. Xavier Rudd
Nature Me History You Strong Mother Energy Universe Pulse Dancing I Can Only Particular Mother Nature Surf Surfing Real Close Person The History Of Might Connecting Connection Connects Riding
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. Noam Chomsky
Truth Democracy History Class Training Events Minority Ideology Lying Hidden Distortion Seek Facilities Through Veil Provides Western Privileged Current Behind Leisure Which Interest Us Presented
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' William F. Buckley, Jr.
History Conservative Fellow Yelling Stop Standing Who
Blood alone moves the wheels of history. Martin Luther
Alone History Blood Wheels Moves
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. Harry S Truman
History Police Marine Corps Will Long President Corps Machine Propaganda Remain Almost Police Force Equal Force Am Stalin Navy Marine
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. Margaret Thatcher
History World Dangerous Would Would-Be Weapons More Without Stable Us Less Nuclear Nuclear Weapons
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. Margaret Thatcher
History Try Depend Starve Ways Must Find Democratic Terrorist Nations Oxygen Which Publicity
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry
Time History Peace Grief Grace World Rest Free Wild Come Am Forethought Tax Who Lives Things
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. Will Durant
Time History Too Much Too Too Much Time Spend Thousand Thousand Years Hours Most Years Six Little Us Much Twenty-Four Last
For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love. Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Life Love God Me Silence Prayer History Peace Power Personal Life Our Times Personal Listen Essential The History Of Order Which Us Speaks Serenity Inner Inner Peace
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce
History Events Fools Soldiers Rulers Brought About Knave Mostly False Account Which Unimportant
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum. Ban Ki-moon
Day Great History You Persistence Women Men Men And Women Long Bicycle Everywhere Carry Stay Only Purpose Through Throughout Learned Ultimately Up Effort Endeavour Any Upright Move Human Move Forward Common Nations Might Human History Requiring Forward Many Momentum Keep Riding Seriousness
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. Benito Mussolini
History People Insane Insane People Mainly Saints The History Of
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. Benjamin Disraeli
History World Earth More Heaven The History Of View Jerusalem
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. Charles Bukowski
History Men Local Back Like Drunks Dice Bunch Shooting Bar Wasted
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. Fidel Castro
Me History Matter Will Absolve Does Condemn
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind. Fidel Castro
History Become NATO Military Alliance Brutal Most Instrument Known The History Of Repression Humankind
World history is a court of judgment. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History World Judgment Court World History
I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. George Clooney
Great History Trials Events Conservative Country Believe Liberal Back Our Witch Witches Qualities Salem Going Being Where Burned Stake Social Should View Keep Keep Going Thing Starting
I don't have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It's what's most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history. Giorgio Armani
Today Me History Passion Consistency Independence Own Way My Own Risk Tenacity Most Pass Always Close Precious Did Hold Formula Professional Even
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. Harry S Truman
Time History Country Few Mouth Lying Sides Nixon Out Run High High Office Both Both Sides Talking His Office Same Same Time The History Of
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse
History Humanity Writing Words Books Would Would-Be Could Concept Without
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