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" I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. "

Alexander Smith

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" History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. "

Winston Churchill

" 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. "

" History is information. Memory is part of your identity. "

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

John W. Gardner

" If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "

Carter G. Woodson

" The main thing is to make history, not to write it. "

Otto von Bismarck

" History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. "

" No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. "

" Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community. "

" Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "

Michel Houellebecq

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" The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. "

" 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. "

" In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form. "

" 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

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

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

" Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are - nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations. "

" I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently. "

" Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. "

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

" Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. "

" Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. "

William O. Douglas

" 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. "

" There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. "

Claude Vorilhon

" Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. "

Abraham Lincoln

" 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. "

" For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. "

Winston Churchill