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" 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. "

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" When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans. "

Philipp Meyer

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

" On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal. "

" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

" India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. "

" The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. "

" All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars. "

" I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. "

" By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. "

" The history of mankind is the history of ideas. "

" History should be written as philosophy. "

" The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. "

" Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back. "

" Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy. "

" Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. "

Edward Kennedy

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You

" I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing. "

" The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years. "

" History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am. "

" The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. "

" Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. "

" 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. "

" The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. "

" The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.' "

" History is a relay of revolutions. "

" When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang. "

" The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. "

" Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction. "

" Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. "

" 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. "

" 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. "