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" Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. "
Arnold J. Toynbee
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" Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. "
Madeleine Albright
Men
History
Jewelry
" We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. "
John F. Kennedy
Once
Like
Live
" If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku. "
H. W. Brands
You
Wanted
Write
" The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. "
Nancy Pelosi
Sued
History
House
" So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. "
Phillip Noyce
Story
Questions
Opportunity
" History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. "
Winston Churchill
Kind
Me
Will
" History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Past
Events
History
" When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn't cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been. "
Markwayne Mullin
History
Process
America
" A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. "
Peter Cooper
Reason
True
Events
" In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. "
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Interior
History
Plants
" They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. "
Douglas MacArthur
Bay
Men
History
" History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. "
E. L. Doctorow
History
Generation
People
" To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. "
Irving R. Kaufman
Most
Mind
History
" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "
Margaret Mead
Young
History
Seeing
" Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. "
Marco Rubio
Modern
American
History
" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "
Condoleezza Rice
History
Judgment
Rarely
" The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years. "
Peter Navarro
History
Mistake
Worst
" Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. "
Andre Malraux
Time
Truth
History
" One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Work Hard
Good
History
" On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. "
Alfred de Vigny
Born
Day
History
" 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. "
Kevin Rudd
History
Australia
Culture
" I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. "
Emilia Fox
History
Reading
Life
" The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. "
Ludwig von Mises
Been
Disaster
Source
" The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books. "
Chance The Rapper
History
Generation
Problem
" Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "
Confucius
Glory
Our
Time
" 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
Together
Men
History
" The '60s is such an explosive period. It was very interesting for me because I grew up in Canada, and obviously, I know some American history because I've lived here for many years, and even in Canada, that does permeate. "
Stephanie Savage
Know
Interesting
History
" World history is a court of judgment. "
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Judgment
World
Court
" If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Me
Time
Black
" The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. "
Benjamin Disraeli
History
Heaven
World