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" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "
Virginia Woolf
Anonymous
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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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" 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? "
Goldwin Smith
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" The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides. "
Octavio Paz
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" It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. "
Virginia Woolf
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" History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. "
Anatole France
History
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" When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang. "
Michelle Phan
Men
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History
" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "
Susan B. Anthony
Vote
Women
Dogs
" Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "
Abraham Lincoln
Generation
Down
Honor
" Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. "
Noah Feldman
History
Fall
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" As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Time
Research
Know
" Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed. "
Ajit Pai
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Free
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" I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. "
B. F. Skinner
Children
History
Myself
" I don't think you can erase history. "
Johnny Van Zant
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You
Think
" The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. "
Karl Marx
Well
History
Serve
" In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. "
Hugo Black
View
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Purpose
" If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku. "
H. W. Brands
You
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" Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. "
Larry Brilliant
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" The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. "
A. Whitney Brown
Down
History
Only
" Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history. "
Mike Quigley
Challenges
World
Peaceful
" It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. "
Benito Mussolini
Hands
People
History
" It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. "
Gertrude Stein
" The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. "
Rand Paul
Union
History
Within
" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. "
Georges Clemenceau
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History
" 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
" History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Past
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History
" Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. "
Alton Brown
Time
Sometimes
Out
" I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy. "
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Technology
History
I Am
" I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. "
Alexander Smith
History
Library
Go
" 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. "
Richard M. Nixon
Respect
Nature
Change
" Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. "
Barbara Tuchman
Science
Dumb
History