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" History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. "

Lawrence Durrell

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" The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ. "

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" An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. "

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" History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality. "

" We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. "

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" My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. "

" My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. "

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" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "

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" It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. "

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" Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s. "

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" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "

" Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. "

" The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. "

" The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. "

" Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. "

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" I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that. "

" I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine. "

" I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. "

" We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. "

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" We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. "

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" 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. "

" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "

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" The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. "

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" The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. "

" Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. "

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" If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. "