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Work is victory.
Work
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Perseverance
Ted W. Engstrom

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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Temptation
Frederick W. Faber

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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Wine
Clifton Fadiman

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Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.
Determination
Jules Favre

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Might does not make right, it only makes history.
History and Historians
Jim Fiebig

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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
Biography
Louis Fischer

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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Thoughts and Thinking
Paul Fix

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
History and Historians
Gustave Flaubert

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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
Victory
Ferdinand Foch

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Victory
Malcolm S. Forbes

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History is more or less bunk.
History and Historians
Henry Ford

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
Business
Henry Ford

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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Ability
Henry Ford

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History and Historians
Anatole France

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love
Erich Fromm

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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Satisfaction
Mahatma Gandhi

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Crime and Criminals
Jean Genet

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
History and Historians
Edward Gibbon

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He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
History and Historians
William E. Gladstone

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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Photography
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The history of mankind is his character.
History and Historians
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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News is the first rough draft of history.
News
Philip L. Graham

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Lies and Lying
Graham Greene

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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Past
John Guare

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun