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" Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us. "

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" Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. "

James Buchan

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" Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us. "

" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "

" There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. "

" History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. "

" A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. "

" History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention. "

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

" The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. "

" Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global. "

" The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. "

" By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries. "

" To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' "

" I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. "

" 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. "

Barack Obama

" Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other. "

" No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. "

" 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. "

" Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? "

" Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. "

" If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. "

" In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. "

" Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. "

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am. "

" The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization. "

" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "

" What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? "

" Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. "