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" 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. "

Guy Standing

Water

Fishing

" A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. "

" The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. "

" I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

Think

Say

History

" The precariat faces chronic uncertainty about what to do, about what incomes to expect, about state benefits that might be their due, about their relationships, their homes, and about the occupations they can realistically expect. "

" They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. "

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

" The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect. "

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

John Burroughs

Feeling

History

" The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books. "

" In history, the millions win; that is democracy. "

" I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place. "

" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "

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

" One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. "

" Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability. "

" Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. "

" The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. "

" All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. "

" So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. "

" The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. "

" Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. "

Mahatma Gandhi

Die

Man

" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "

" I don't think you can erase history. "

" It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge. "

" When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn't cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been. "