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" I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. "

Martin Scorsese

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" The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. "

Lawrence Summers

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. "

" It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. "

Benito Mussolini

" History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. "

" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "

" Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. "

" It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years. "

Grover Norquist

" History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse. "

" People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. "

James A. Baldwin

" I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history. "

" 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

" History proves that the white man is a devil. "

" We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive. "

Chris Stapleton

" History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield. "

" 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. "

" A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. "

" I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place. "

" The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. "

Barbara Tuchman

" To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal 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. "

" The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. "

" In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. "

" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "

" Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not. "

" It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge. "

" We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.' "

" The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. "