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" Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. "

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" Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. "

" Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. "

" Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear. "

" We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form. "

" History is a vast early warning system. "

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

Alice Temperley

" The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. "

" I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all. "

" During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. "

" We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. "

Franklin Pierce Adams

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

" I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular. "

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

Thurgood Marshall

" 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

" 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

" Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "

" Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' "

" The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. "

" I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you. "

" The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. "

" The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality. "

" 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

" The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. "

Stephen Hawking

" You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. "

Stephen Ambrose

" If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. "

" The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. "

" Live out of your imagination, not your history. "

" France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. "

Francois Mitterrand

" A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. "