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" Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. "

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" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "

C. S. Lewis

World

Think

History

" Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. "

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

" History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. "

" I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present. "

" I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man. "

Douglas Booth

History

Man

" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

" A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. "

" The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. "

" We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form. "

" Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. "

Harry Johnston

Stream

Within

" No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology. "

" 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. "

" The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. "

" We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. "

" History shows that there are no invincible armies. "

" History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. "

" Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. "

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

" It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. "

" From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. "

" If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different. "

" The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. "

" 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. "

" Manchester United are not just some club. To be part of this club also means to be part of a great history. "

" Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits. "

" If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity. "

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "

" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "

" The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. "