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" Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. "

Conor Cruise O'Brien

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" Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. "

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" The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die. "

" My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history. "

" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

Thurgood Marshall

" A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. "

" A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. "

" 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

" A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent. "

Brett Kavanaugh

" I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy. "

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

" One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. "

Stephen Ambrose

" Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. "

Ibrahim Babangida

" I was France. "

Charles de Gaulle

" More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying. "

" Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. "

" Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them. "

" Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed. "

" I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people. "

Khabib Nurmagomedov

" The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. "

Wynton Marsalis

" I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. "

" Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. "

" I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. "

" While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. "

Mattie Stepanek

" If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. "

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