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" A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. "
Peter Cooper
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" There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. "
James Lovelock
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" Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. "
Madeleine Albright
Men
History
Jewelry
" Time is my greatest enemy. "
Evita Peron
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Time
Greatest
" Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. "
Mark Kurlansky
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History
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" What is history but a fable agreed upon? "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Agreed
History
Fable
" History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. "
James Howard Kunstler
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People
Moving
" If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. "
Desmond Tutu
Appreciate
Elephant
History
" The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. "
Nancy Pelosi
Sued
History
House
" 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
History
Proud
Rain
" Sometimes - history needs a push. "
Vladimir Lenin
History
Sometimes
Push
" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "
Sarah Bernhardt
Victorious
History
Legend
" History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. "
David McCullough
Who
Guide
History
" I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. "
Stephen Hawking
History
Time
Had
" Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world. "
Steven Pinker
Knowledge
History
World
" The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. "
Jacques Chirac
Construction
Possible
History
" Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. "
Benito Mussolini
Will
Fascism
History
" That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. "
Philip Zimbardo
History
Behavior
Environment
" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "
Colin Powell
World
Time
Percent
" It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. "
Yvette Clarke
History
Rights
Washington
" The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality. "
Sam Kean
Quality
Money
History
" Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. "
Jared Diamond
Isolation
Study
History
" The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. "
George F. Kennan
History
Problems
Generation
" Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. "
Mahatma Gandhi
History
Act
India
" You have to look at history as an evolution of society. "
Jean Chretien
Evolution
Look
History
" Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true. "
Donald Trump
Believe
Golf
History
" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "
Bill Gates
Low
People
Time
" Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. "
Winston Churchill
Want
History
Simple
" There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. "
Michelle Obama
Made
Worth
Still
" Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin. "
Heather Watts
Achievement
New York
Queen
" All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. "
Friedrich Engels
Class
Development
History