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" I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
History
Knowledge
Time
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" All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA. "
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" The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. "
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" There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. "
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" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "
Lynn Nottage
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" Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. "
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" There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest. "
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" It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. "
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" Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. "
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" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "
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" There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame. "
Anne Donovan
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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. "
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" Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity. "
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" Human history in essence is the history of ideas. "
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" The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. "
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" Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt. "
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" Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. "
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Life
" I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man. "
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" All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. "
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" If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth. "
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" The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not. "
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" India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. "
Anita Desai
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" Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. "
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" Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. "
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" The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. "
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" We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us. "
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" In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history. "
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" A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. "
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" I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight. "
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