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" 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

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" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "

" The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. "

" In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from. "

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

" I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. "

" This lady is not for turning. "

Margaret Thatcher

" What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. "

" After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics. "

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

" Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. "

" Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. "

" I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. "

Margaret Thatcher

" Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. "

Margaret Thatcher

" While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm. "

" 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. "

" History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. "

David Weinberger

" Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world. "

" I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story. "

" 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

" History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb. "

" Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" 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

" If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. "

" You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. "

Margaret Thatcher

" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "

" Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. "

" The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. "

" As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty. "

" There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. "