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" History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am. "

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" Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. "

" While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm. "

" 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. "

Benjamin Harrison

" 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. "

" I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home. "

Deborah Moggach

" I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories. "

John Henrik Clarke

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

" History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one. "

" There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. "

Winston Churchill

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

" I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. "

" The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. "

A. Whitney Brown

" I let the American people down. "

Richard M. Nixon

" It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Time is my greatest enemy. "

" The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. "

Edwin Powell Hubble

" There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history. "

Wilma Mankiller

" The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past. "

Alycia Debnam-Carey

" History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. "

" The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. "

" We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny. "

Oscar de la Renta

" All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. "

" History is a vast early warning system. "

" What is history but a fable agreed upon? "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! "

Nikita Khrushchev

" Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. "

Timothy Garton Ash

" Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. "

" All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma. "