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" Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. "

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

" We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. "

John F. Kennedy

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

" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "

" We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. "

David Ebershoff

" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

Thurgood Marshall

" You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. "

" Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Norodom Sihanouk

" Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart. "

" History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. "

" Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. "

" We are what we believe we are. "

" The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years. "

" Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. "

" 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. "

" History should be written as philosophy. "

" We learned the value of research in World War II. "

" 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. "

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

" The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. "

" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "

George Santayana

" The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

" I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration. "

Valentina Tereshkova

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

Mitch McConnell

" I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn. "

" 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. "

Stephen Hawking