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  • The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been a sleeping giant. He is awakening. The original Americans could become the evangelists who will help win America for Christ! Remember these forgotten people!

  • The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

    Truth   Lying   Passion  
    "An Autobiography and Other Essays". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, 1949.
  • The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

    Alfred Thayer Mahan (1912). “Armaments and Arbitration, Or, The Place of Force in the International Relations of States”, p.206, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
  • History is a set of lies agreed upon.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.

  • Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

    Lying   Rising   Done  
    "The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts". Play by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, 1936.
  • The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

    Real   Lying   Fall  
    MARY RENAULT (1966). “THE MASK OF APOLLO”
  • Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

    "Was John Szarkowski the most influential person in 20th-century photography?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.
  • Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

    Lying   History   Secret  
    "Churchill By Himself".
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