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

Dante Alighieri

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" I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. "

" You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. "

" Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. "

" Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. "

Dante Alighieri

" History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. "

" Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "

" There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. "

Claude Vorilhon

" When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans. "

" Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. "

Benito Mussolini

" 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

" My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc. "

Friedrich Engels

" A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona. "

Rabih Alameddine

" Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. "

" There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. "

" Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy. "

" It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. "

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

Christoph Waltz

" Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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

" Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are - nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations. "

" It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. "

" History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. "

" As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. "

" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

" 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

" My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history. "

Alice Temperley