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" Live out of your imagination, not your history. "

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" I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. "

" 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. "

" There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. "

" Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. "

William O. Douglas

" The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. "

" The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. "

Michael Specter

" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "

Condoleezza Rice

" The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable. "

" The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality. "

" There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. "

" I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. "

" If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. "

Rudyard Kipling

" The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. "

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

" The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. "

" Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it. "

" It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. "

" Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history. "

" History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. "

Ellsworth Huntington

" Time is my greatest enemy. "

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

" 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. "

" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

Thurgood Marshall

" History is a vast early warning system. "

" I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. "

" Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. "

" 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.' "

" History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. "

" OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. "

" History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. "