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

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" There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. "

" My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. "

John Henrik Clarke

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

Rusty Schweickart

" The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. "

" The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. "

" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "

" To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore. "

" There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. "

" The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "

" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "

" 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

" The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. "

" 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. "

" When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. "

" We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. "

John F. Kennedy

" I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home. "

Deborah Moggach

" Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. "

" One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. "

" What Britain needs is an iron lady. "

Margaret Thatcher

" More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. "

" God's first creature, which was light. "

" Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. "

" I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history. "

" The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. "

" Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history. "

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

" Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. "

" 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. "

" I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. "