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" I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. "

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" History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero. "

" 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. "

" If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. "

" The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. "

" 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

" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

Thurgood Marshall

" Sometimes - history needs a push. "

" We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. "

John F. Kennedy

" 'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself. "

" We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. "

" Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' "

" History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. "

Robert H. Schuller

" It's a very good historical book about history. "

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

Larry Brilliant

" Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. "

George Bernard Shaw

" It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. "

" 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. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Persian Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked. "

" 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

" The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not. "

" Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. "

" I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. "

" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "

" Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration. "

" My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. "

John Henrik Clarke

" For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. "

" How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. "