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" I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore. "

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" There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there's still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience. "

Ron Howard

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Great

You

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

" History is a set of lies agreed upon. "

" What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not. "

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

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

" We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. "

Juan Antonio Samaranch

History

Race

Religion

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

" The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. "

" When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn't cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been. "

" '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. "

" Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

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

" My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history. "

" The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. "

" Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. "

" I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes. "

" The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day. "

" All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. "

" This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. "

" Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. "

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

Larry Brilliant

History

People

" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "

" Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. "

" The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. "

" In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. "

" The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History

Forward

Stand

" History is Philosophy teaching by example. "

" By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries. "

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

John F. Kennedy

Once

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