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" My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history. "

Alice Temperley

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" The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization. "

" Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy. "

" The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. "

Alfred A. Montapert

" 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. "

" In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. "

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" The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. "

" History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. "

" As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty. "

" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "

Condoleezza Rice

" 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

" The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. "

" 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. "

Frans van Houten

" We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America. "

Douglas Brinkley

" History is written by the victors. "

Winston Churchill

" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

Thurgood Marshall

" Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us. "

" History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. "

" Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. "

Benito Mussolini

" I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things. "

Alice Temperley

" Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. "

Pope John Paul II

" Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "

" I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently. "

" A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. "

" Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt. "

" If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different. "

" You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about. "

Alice Temperley

" To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' "

" If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku. "

" The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. "

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