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" I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people. "

Khabib Nurmagomedov

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" 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. "

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

" The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy. "

" After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics. "

" In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. "

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" Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world. "

" When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. "

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" It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years. "

Grover Norquist

" Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. "

" What is history but a fable agreed upon? "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university. "

" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

Thurgood Marshall

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. "

" You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out. "

Khabib Nurmagomedov

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

Larry Brilliant

" In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. "

" The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. "

Barbara Tuchman

" If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! "

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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" I am responsible only to God and history. "

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" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "

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" I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. "

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

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" I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. "

" I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world. "

" A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork. "

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" I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me. "