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" Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly. "
Octavio Paz
Reality
Far
History
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" Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. "
Winston Churchill
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" Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. "
Hermann Hesse
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" I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. "
Herbert Hoover
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" History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. "
Alexis de Tocqueville
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" Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. "
Barbara Ehrenreich
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" In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension. "
Octavio Paz
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" History is Philosophy teaching by example. "
Thucydides
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" In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. "
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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" History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life. "
Pawan Kalyan
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" The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over. "
Lewis Black
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" Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. "
Honore de Balzac
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" When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it. "
T. B. Joshua
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You
" There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy. "
David Grinspoon
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" Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. "
Tacitus
Good
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Done
" 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
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" In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. "
Tommy Lee Jones
" Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.' "
Maya Angelou
Slavery
Story
Tomorrow
" The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. "
Shimon Peres
Nation
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Born
" Human history in essence is the history of ideas. "
H. G. Wells
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" The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society. "
Rosa Luxemburg
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" I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. "
Dalai Lama
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" It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. "
Thomas Friedman
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" No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology. "
D. A. Carson
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" Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. "
Joel Osteen
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" Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! "
Nikita Khrushchev
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" 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. "
Ewan McGregor
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" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "
John McCain
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" The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. "
Joseph Brodsky
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" There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge. "
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" The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. "
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