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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. Dean Acheson | top
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You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now. Marcus Allen | top
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Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. Mary McLeod Bethune | top
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. Fernand Braudel | top
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The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. Joseph Brodsky | top
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There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. Peabo Bryson | top
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. Nicolaus Copernicus | top
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Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. Doris Kearns Goodwin | top
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Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before. Matt Groening | top
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Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. Alexander Herzen | top
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. Washington Irving | top
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Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | top
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Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present? Roland Joffe | top
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I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. Richard Leakey | top
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. Max Lerner | top
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I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history. John Lone | top
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. Golda Meir | top
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The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. Alfred A. Montapert | top
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True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions. Lester B. Pearson | top
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When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980. Jacques Rivette | top
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The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. Robert Baldwin Ross | top
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. Bertrand Russell | top
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My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. Ellen Tauscher | top
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An important part of what the state does is preserving its history. James R. Thompson | top
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. Walt Whitman | top
