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Donald Kagan Quotes

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1932

Topics

History Born Without Where Accident

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

People Rich Will More Fabulous Make

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Good Women Men Woman People Skills

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

Jeremy Grantham

Capitalism Planning Better Way Never

It's going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, 'How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?'

Matthew Heineman

Strength Health Mirror Together Help

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Home Law Harvest Kind Wood Corn

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Together Strangers Dream Cinema Dark

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

Women Men Night Fall Go Want

I played Sky Masterson in 'Guys and Dolls' at St. Ignatius. I walked out onstage at one point looking for Nathan Detroit, and I'm supposed to say, 'Has anyone seen Nathan Detroit?' But, instead, I said, 'Has anyone seen Sky Masterson?' I immediately realized what I'd done, so I said, 'Wait a minute. I'm Sky Masterson!'

Sky Wait Looking Said Done Detroit

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

Change Men Game Rules Never Example

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

Joshua Waitzkin

Learning Truth Challenge Training Me

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Jonathan Galassi

Fire Poetry Think Loved Always Pale

We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace.

Condoleezza Rice

Happiness Freedom Vision Peace War

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