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" History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. "

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" The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. "

" Human history in essence is the history of ideas. "

" The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. "

" A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected. "

William Shockley

" 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. "

" Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. "

" World history is a court of judgment. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts. "

" Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. "

" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "

" I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut. "

" There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time. "

" When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang. "

" Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history. "

" I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history. "

David Christian

" I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. "

" 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. "

" It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. "

" All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. "

Richard Brautigan

" If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. "

" I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it. "

Richard Holbrooke

" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "

" The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor. "

" Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. "

" It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. "

" Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. "

" The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable. "

" To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up. "

" That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. "

William McKinley

" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "