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" If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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" History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero. "

" The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides. "

" Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change. "

Howard Rheingold

" Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. "

" Live out of your imagination, not your history. "

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

" Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check. "

Marianne Williamson

" A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected. "

William Shockley

" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "

" History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. "

Lawrence Durrell

" My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. "

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "

" I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. "

" Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

" Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. "

Richard M. Nixon

" The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. "

" I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums. "

" Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win. "

A. Philip Randolph

" Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt. "

" One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. "

" History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. "

" All things must change to something new, to something strange. "

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" I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. "

" The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy. "

" To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore. "

" I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. "