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" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "

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" Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. "

" So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard. "

Susanna Kearsley

" More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying. "

" Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. "

" As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. "

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

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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

Condoleezza Rice

" Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. "

" Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. "

Jeremy Grantham

" All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. "

" I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. "

Shirley Chisholm

" 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. "

" Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" 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. "

" 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

" It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. "

" 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. "

" The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. "

" A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny. "

Oscar de la Renta

" It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. "

" You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. "

Margaret Thatcher

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

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

" American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. "

James A. Baldwin

" We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. "

Juan Antonio Samaranch

" Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. "

Simon Mainwaring