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" Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. "

Cokie Roberts

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" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "

" The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. "

" You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. "

Maya Angelou

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

" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "

" Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. "

" The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past. "

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

" Sometimes - history needs a push. "

" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "

" Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. "

" There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy. "

" 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. "

" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "

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

" History is about loops and continuums. "

" As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. "

" I let the American people down. "

" History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. "

James Howard Kunstler

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" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "

Lech Walesa

" What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? "

" History is information. Memory is part of your identity. "

" Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. "

" The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite. "

" My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier. "

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

" There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history. "

" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "

" History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. "

" History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. "

Abba Eban

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