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" I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. "

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" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "

" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "

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" That great dust-heap called 'history'. "

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" The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. "

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" Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. "

" Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. "

Benito Mussolini

" 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. "

" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "

" The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. "

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" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "

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" Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. "

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

" I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. "

" And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. "

" You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work. "

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

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" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "

Margaret Thatcher

" 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. "

" To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' "

" 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 more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. "

Nikita Khrushchev

" History is written by the victors. "

Winston Churchill

" It's a very good historical book about history. "

" Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? "

" Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us. "

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

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" Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. "

" 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. "

" I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories. "

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