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" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "
Thomas Sowell
History
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" Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' "
Nia Vardalos
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" For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. "
Nicolaus Copernicus
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" Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions. "
Thomas Sowell
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" I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. "
Maya Angelou
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" I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history. "
David Christian
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" It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence. "
Richard Cohen
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" All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. "
Richard Brautigan
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" 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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" I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history. "
Henry Petroski
Find
History
Interesting
" I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. "
Alexander Smith
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Library
Go
" I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up. "
Alan Bennett
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" The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society. "
Rosa Luxemburg
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Revolution
Society
" 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. "
Annie Besant
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Only
" There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. "
Isaac Newton
Authenticity
Sure
Bible
" Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. "
Manmohan Singh
World
Danger
History
" Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. "
Ray Manzarek
Yourself
Touch
You
" One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. "
William O. Douglas
Amendment
Protest
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" Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. "
William O. Douglas
Tell
FBI
Back
" Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us. "
Phil Anselmo
True
Music
Yourself
" Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. "
Norodom Sihanouk
Place
Dishonesty
Time
" History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. "
David McCullough
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" Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. "
Ani DiFranco
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Mystery
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" To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. "
Eckhart Tolle
Thought
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Mind
" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "
Gore Vidal
Gossip
History
Hope
" I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one. "
Mark Kurlansky
Love
People
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" Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian robot' is. They love to laugh - they're very affectionate. Maybe because of their history of oppression, when they feel you are part of their tribe, they are intensely loyal. I love that about Koreans! "
Min Jin Lee
You
Dance
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" So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. "
Milton Friedman
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Way
Free
" There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
History
Learning
Men
" I let the American people down. "
Richard M. Nixon
American
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" 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. "
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