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" Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done. "

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" My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made. "

Jorge Ramos

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Dream

" The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. "

" History is about loops and continuums. "

" 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. "

" Tokyo style is so specific. And I'm a very big fan of their history. It's pretty simple. A lot of the time, people expect to see the wild style that comes out of Japan, but I think, traditionally, the style is very simple. "

" No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. "

" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "

" Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. "

" The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. "

" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. "

" History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. "

" I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing. "

" If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. "

" History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. "

" As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. "

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

" People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. "

" This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. "

" If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. "

" The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. "

" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "

" History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. "

Philip Guedalla

History Repeats Itself

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" That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for 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. "

" World history is a court of judgment. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Judgment

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Court

" A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. "

" All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars. "

" History proves that the white man is a devil. "

" Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian robot' is. They love to laugh - they're very affectionate. Maybe because of their history of oppression, when they feel you are part of their tribe, they are intensely loyal. I love that about Koreans! "