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" A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. "

John Maynard Keynes

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" The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. "

Edwin Powell Hubble

" Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not. "

" The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die. "

" Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. "

" I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. "

John Foster Dulles

" The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too. "

Frances Beinecke

" We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive. "

Chris Stapleton

" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "

Richard M. Nixon

" My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy. "

Nestor Carbonell

" People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. "

" The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. "

Queen Elizabeth II

" The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. "

" There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go. "

Lal Bahadur Shastri

" Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "

" You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. "

David McCullough

" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "

Margaret Thatcher

" Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. "

" I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history. "

" Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability. "

Frans van Houten

" Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed. "

" I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves. "

Francis Fukuyama

" Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. "

" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "

" 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

" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "

" We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. "

" Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. "

C. Wright Mills

" Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. "

" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "