The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
— Mark Twain · History
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
— Mark Twain · History
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“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”
“He is now rising from affluence to poverty.”
“But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.”
“The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.”
“Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.”
“Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.”
“Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.”
“I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.”