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" History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. "
Alexis de Tocqueville
Gallery
History
Many
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" The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. "
Carl T. Rowan
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Library
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" I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place. "
Jason Day
Golf
Partner
Proud
" The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. "
Simon Wiesenthal
Information
History
Repetition
" All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. "
Neil Armstrong
Me
Great
Generation
" Manchester United are not just some club. To be part of this club also means to be part of a great history. "
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
United
Just
History
" Ideas shape the course of history. "
John Maynard Keynes
History
Inspirational
Shape
" Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Forward
History
Wealth
" I did not come to NASA to make history. "
Sally Ride
Come
Make
History
" Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. "
Dick Gregory
Black
Me
Progress
" History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. "
Anatole France
History
Lies
Books
" Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. "
Walt Whitman
History
Judging
Always
" We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. "
Barack Obama
" The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not. "
Elon Musk
Right
Back
You
" History should be written as philosophy. "
Voltaire
History
Written
Philosophy
" A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' "
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Stop
Conservative
History
" If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku. "
H. W. Brands
You
Wanted
Write
" It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. "
Vladimir Lenin
History
Time
Progress
" What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? "
Orson F. Whitney
Honor
Past
Wisdom
" There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. "
Ansel Adams
Art
Science
Nature
" 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
Believe
Born
" 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. "
Tom Chatfield
History
Reading
Writing
" Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. "
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Anything
History
Principles
" Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt. "
Jimmy Iovine
Way
Thought
History
" History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention. "
Quavo
History
You
Attention
" The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. "
Barbara Tuchman
Sea
Much
History
" World history is a court of judgment. "
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Judgment
World
Court
" Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. "
Mahatma Gandhi
Die
Up
Man
" History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse. "
Ben Bernanke
Stock Market
Financial
History
" What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. "
Barney Frank
American
History
People
" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "
Lech Walesa