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" I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one. "
Mark Kurlansky
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History
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" If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. "
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" The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. "
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" What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. "
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" Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. "
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" Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. "
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" Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. "
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" I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn. "
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" The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. "
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" The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf. "
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" History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. "
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" My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. "
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" The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results. "
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" I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves. "
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