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" I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. "

Stephen Hawking

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" 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. "

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" While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. "

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" Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin. "

" Of all the threats to free speech in history, the one the media give the most credibility to without question is the feminist movement, which is trying to rebrand public debate as harassment. "

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" I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going. "

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" Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible. "

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" One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. "

" We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. "

David Ebershoff

" A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. "

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" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. "

Georges Clemenceau

" 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

" It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present. "

" I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that. "

" 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. "

" I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school. "

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

" History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb. "

" I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. "

" If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. "

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" Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. "

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" 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 known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "

" There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. "

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" History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. "

" There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. "

" In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. "

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" The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy. "

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" I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error. "

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