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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 contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent. "

Tammy Duckworth

" History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. "

John Henrik Clarke

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

" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "

" Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. "

" All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. "

Friedrich Engels

" 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

" Sometimes - history needs a push. "

" There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. "

" 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

" Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. "

" The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the three Abrahamic religions, the greatest millenarian rapture of human history. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. "

Georges Clemenceau

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

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

" The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead. "

" My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history. "

Alice Temperley

" I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. "

" I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. "

" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "

Sturgill Simpson

" History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. "

" A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona. "

Rabih Alameddine

" The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. "

" History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. "

Konrad Adenauer

" History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. "

" The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. "

" When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history. "