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" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. "

Georges Clemenceau

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" To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. "

" I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world. "

" In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. "

Richard M. Nixon

" When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel. "

" It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. "

Benito Mussolini

" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "

" As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. "

" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

Mitch McConnell

" Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. "

" Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history. "

" History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero. "

" If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. "

Ellsworth Huntington

" I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it. "

" If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. "

" I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "

Condoleezza Rice

" 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. "

" The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn. "

" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "

Sarah Bernhardt

" Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history. "

" 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. "

" A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. "

" In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. "

Richard M. Nixon

" India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. "