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" All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. "

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" Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it. "

" It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present. "

" If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. "

Ludwig von Mises

" If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" History is a set of lies agreed upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" In history, the millions win; that is democracy. "

Nawal El Saadawi

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done. "

" I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. "

" Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "

Dante Alighieri

" One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. "

" If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world. "

" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "

Henry Kissinger

" So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. "

Milton Friedman

" When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. "

Rusty Schweickart

" Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. "

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

" I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories. "

John Henrik Clarke

" It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" History develops, art stands still. "

" 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. "

" On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal. "

" I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. "

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "

Stephen Hawking

" If you think you have it tough, read history books. "

" History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. "

" And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. "