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Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.

Your condition does not determine your life history. It’s your decision in that condition that tells more about your destiny. Decide not to see the available as the preferable!

Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......

Your history flows from your hands write good chapters with them" RjS

Your impact in life is a memory that lives forever thus be creative in positivity.

Your history is not your future.

Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.

Your life is not a tragedy. It’s history, and it’s yours.

Your mouth can correct what is wrong. Your eyes can see evil and your mouth can speak righteousness. Your body can say I am sick while your mouth can say I am healed. Your eyes can say I am blind but your mouth can say I can see, Your pocket can say I am empty while your mouth can say I am swimming in abundance. Your Doctor can say that you are HIV Postive and Cancer but your mouth can say my body is a holy temple of God and by His stripes I am healed. Your womb can say that you are barren while your mouth can say "Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward." Don´t live by sight, live by faith. Put it in practice.

Your past and your present are your life history; you cannot forget that. It shows the experiences, positive or negative, in the light of that, you decide your future. Forgetting that means you are going to cut your life history.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed a few things. The builder of your Cathedral is forgotten even now, but I, who burned it, may be remembered for a hundred years or so. And that may mean something or other about mankind.

You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating them like sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing ways return might be possible against these homesick inventions, trace the traveller's alien steps across borders, and in between discover how transit has a way of lasting, the way these Chinatowns grew out of not knowing whether to return or to stay, and then became home.

You shall not hear their mirth: You shall not come to think them well content By any jest of mine. These men are worth Your tears:You are not worth their merriment.

...you sometimes note an impatience on the part of a specialist that the public does not show sufficient interest in his assemblage of information as such. He is likely to conclude that the average person is somewhat stupid. The opposite is true. It is a sign of native intelligence on the part of any person not to clutter his mind with indigestibles.

You've been foreign all your life. When you finally leave, all you're hoping for is a more bearable kind of foreignness.

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You are not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

You will leave your foot print in the sand of history if you understand and apply the power of time conversion.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which was not unworthy of a statesman or a philosopher. He extended to all the inhabitants of the Roman world the benefits of a free and equal toleration; and the only hardship which he inflicted on the Christians was to deprive them of the power of tormenting their fellow-subjects, whom they stigmatised with the odious titles of idolaters and heretics.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

All great ideas are dangerous.