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" I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. "

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

Larry Brilliant

" Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. "

" If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. "

" Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy. "

" A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. "

" Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other. "

" Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them. "

" So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. "

" All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock. "

" History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. "

" We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold. "

" Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. "

Philip Zimbardo

" Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world. "

" I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques. "

Kelly Wearstler

" I am responsible only to God and history. "

Francisco Franco

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. "

" I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. "

" Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. "

Arthur Henderson

" History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. "

" I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. "

" 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. "

" The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

" Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old. "

" History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. "

" Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar. "

" Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. "

" Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. "