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" History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. "

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" Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. "

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" It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. "

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

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" Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. "

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" The American free enterprise system is the greatest tool to lift people out of poverty ever created in human history and when applied properly, does not discriminate by race, religion, or skin color. "

Markwayne Mullin

" Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. "

" Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "

Abraham Lincoln

" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "

George Santayana

" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "

" I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. "

" The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. "

" I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books. "

" From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. "

" The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. "

" We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. "

" 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. "

" History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. "

David McCullough

" What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? "

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" Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. "

" Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. "

" I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out. "

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

" When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel. "

" 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. "

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

" Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. "

" 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. "

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" I came, I saw, I conquered. "