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" History never looks like history when you are living through it. "

John W. Gardner

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John W. Gardner

" I don't care about history; all I care about is winning. "

" I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history. "

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

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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. "

" The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. "

" Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. "

" If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. "

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" 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. "

Bryant H. McGill

" History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. "

" It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence. "

" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "

" History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. "

" If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter. The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist. "

" 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. "

" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

" If you think you have it tough, read history books. "

" The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history. "

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

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

" Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. "

" 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. "

" You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters. "

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" The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. "

Irving R. Kaufman

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" 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

" We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. "

Franklin Pierce Adams