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" All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. "

Richard Brautigan

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" The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. "

" I am responsible only to God and history. "

Francisco Franco

" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "

" History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. "

" The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. "

Queen Elizabeth II

" It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult. "

Richard Brautigan

" Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. "

" The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. "

" There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. "

Benjamin Harrison

" There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

" Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. "

Richard Brautigan

" When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. "

" I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. "

" What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos. "

" We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. "

Charles Bukowski

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

Edwin Powell Hubble

" I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. "

" No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day. "

Richard Jefferies

" Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. "

" By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. "

Christoph Waltz

" The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past. "

Alycia Debnam-Carey

" History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. "

" In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from. "

" Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. "

" History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. "

" Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. "

William O. Douglas