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" It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. "

Thomas Friedman

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World

Work

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" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "

Lech Walesa

" If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. "

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

" A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. "

" What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not. "

" The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. "

" Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history. "

" Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. "

" In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. "

" There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. "

" 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. "

" Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. "

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

" If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. "

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

" It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. "

" We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us. "

" The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. "

" The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. "

" It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. "

" Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. "

" The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. "

Jared Diamond

Differences

Human

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

" People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history. "

" History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality. "

" The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization. "

" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "

" As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength. "

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

John Burroughs

Feeling

History

" What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. "