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" In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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" Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents. "

" Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. "

Norodom Sihanouk

" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

Alice Temperley

" The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. "

" In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian robot' is. They love to laugh - they're very affectionate. Maybe because of their history of oppression, when they feel you are part of their tribe, they are intensely loyal. I love that about Koreans! "

" Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. "

" As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed. "

" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "

" On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. "

Alfred de Vigny

" A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. "

" The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not. "

" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "

Walter Cronkite

" Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. "

" The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. "

Ludwig von Mises

" When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it. "

" History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. "

" I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. "

James A. Baldwin

" All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. "

" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. "

" We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. "

" History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. "

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

" History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them. "

" I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school. "

" One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. "