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" History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. "

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" The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. "

" A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. "

" The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. "

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

" History is written by the victors. "

Winston Churchill

" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. "

C. Wright Mills

" I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. "

Martin Scorsese

" Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us. "

" One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. "

" There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. "

" Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy. "

" Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. "

" Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "

" I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up. "

" 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. "

" The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society. "

" The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over. "

" Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. "

David Cronenberg

" Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics. "

" Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. "

" History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' "

Eduardo Galeano

" The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. "

" Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. "

Douglas MacArthur

" Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. "

" I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. "

" Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let's take their values and their strengths and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes to keep America the greatest country in the history of man. "

" As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed. "

" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "