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" It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. "

Sonia Sotomayor

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

" People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. "

James A. Baldwin

" Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. "

" I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. "

" I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. "

" History is a relay of revolutions. "

" Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! "

Nikita Khrushchev

" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

David Attenborough

" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "

Richard M. Nixon

" The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. "

Alfred A. Montapert

" History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention. "

" When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. "

" Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history. "

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

" There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.' "

" There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. "

" I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. "

John Foster Dulles

" Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream. "

" One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. "

Albert Schweitzer

" 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

" I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. "

" The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history. "

" Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. "

" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "

" What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? "

" 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. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Alfred de Vigny

" The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. "

Lawrence Summers