Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion under heaven That does afflict our natures.

Unknown

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

Voice of Reason

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.

Whit

...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

The Wilderness World of John Muir

To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

In historical events great men - so-called - are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connexion with the event itself.

War and Peace

A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.

What's in a Word

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

The Way of the World

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Wait Till Next Year

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

You Are Not a Gadget

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

Gene Robinson

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

John Sladek

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Reese Witherspoon

I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the best, and my work speaks for itself.

Sonakshi Sinha

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.

Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning