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" 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

Succeed

History

World

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" History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. "

" A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. "

" 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. "

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

" I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one. "

" The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Progress

Enough

History

" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "

" The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. "

" 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. "

" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "

" The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. "

" Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. "

" It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. "

" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "

" When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history. "

" A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. "

" I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be. "

" 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. "

Nancy Pelosi

War

History

" History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. "

Winston Churchill

Kind

Will

" American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. "

James A. Baldwin

American

Said

" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "

" It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. "

" Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. "

" All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world. "

" All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. "

" What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "