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" History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. "
Ellsworth Huntington
Record
History
Environment
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" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "
Condoleezza Rice
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Rarely
" Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of schedule protection, increasingly scarce in today's DVR world. Cable nets can tolerate small ratings, building hits in progress like 'Breaking Bad,' or marathon their way to a 'Duck Dynasty.' "
Kevin Reilly
History
Small
World
" History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. "
B. R. Ambedkar
Come
Conflict
Ethics
" Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. "
H. L. Mencken
Unsuccessful
History
Historian
" Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history. "
Tony Evans
God
People
History
" To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. "
Auguste Comte
Know
Understand
History
" Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. "
John Moody
History
Great Men
Great
" People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. "
James A. Baldwin
History
Them
People
" 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
Hope
Values
Identity
" Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "
Harry S Truman
Mouth
Talking
Time
" History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero. "
Harlan Ellison
Will
Decide
Hero
" Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction. "
Andre Aciman
History
Writing
Live
" It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. "
Corazon Aquino
History
Who
Been
" And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. "
Lord Acton
Control
Remember
Power
" 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. "
Oscar de la Renta
Destiny
History
Woman
" The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books. "
Chance The Rapper
History
Generation
Problem
" Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. "
Nobu Matsuhisa
History
Peru
Years
" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "
Carl Jung
History
Structure
Man
" Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? "
Carl Jung
Books
Who
Blood
" If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind. "
Harri Holkeri
Heritage
History
Back
" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "
Margaret Mead
Time
Television
History
" That great dust-heap called 'history'. "
Augustine Birrell
History
Great
" 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
Love
Time
Children
" We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. "
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Way
Tried
Culture
" Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. "
Christopher Columbus
Left
World
Sun
" If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Hate
Group
Doing
" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "
Woodrow Wilson
Liberty
History
Resistance
" I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well. "
Robert Mueller
Know
Rights
Terrorism
" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "
Aldous Huxley
Learn
Men
Important
" No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. "
Richard M. Nixon
American
Vietnam War
Now