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" 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. "

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" One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. "

Emmeline Pankhurst

" The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day. "

John C. Maxwell

" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

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

" Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. "

" 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. "

" Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales. "

Marcus Samuelsson

" Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? "

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. "

" Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world. "

" If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity. "

Margot Lee Shetterly

" Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of schedule protection, increasingly scarce in today's DVR world. Cable nets can tolerate small ratings, building hits in progress like 'Breaking Bad,' or marathon their way to a 'Duck Dynasty.' "

" In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. "

" If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. "

Ludwig von Mises

" Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. "

Larry Brilliant

" We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works. "

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" I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. "

" I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. "

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" The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down? That's good. All these things are good. It has to be a little bit of a struggle. "

" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. "

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

" I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing. "

" 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. "