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" My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it. "
Robert Zoellick
History
True Love
Know
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" In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. "
Hugo Black
View
History
Purpose
" 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. "
Markwayne Mullin
History
Process
America
" My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made. "
Jorge Ramos
Journalism
You
Dream
" The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.' "
Erik Erikson
Making
Also
History
" I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. "
Richard M. Nixon
I Can
Acting
See
" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "
Aldous Huxley
Important
History
Learn
" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "
Norman Davies
History
Winners
Today
" What Britain needs is an iron lady. "
Margaret Thatcher
Britain
Needs
Lady
" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "
Will Durant
Guessing
Rest
Prejudice
" We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.' "
Gunter Grass
Try
Great
History
" A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected. "
William Shockley
Creation
History
Truth
" 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. "
Phillip Noyce
Story
Questions
Opportunity
" Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Risks
You
Dangerous
" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "
Eddie Vedder
Fast
Forward
History
" I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be. "
Vanilla Ice
Motto
History
Goals
" This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. "
John Barth
Chapter
Time
New
" 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. "
Ameen Rihani
Today
Die
History
" The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. "
Jill Lepore
Empathy
Imagination
Respect
" The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. "
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Music
Story
Technology
" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "
Francis Bacon
Which
History
Shipwreck
" Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest. "
James Carville
Own
History
Done
" 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
People
Way
Free
" We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. "
Jeb Bush
World
Morning
Axis
" If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. "
James Mattis
History
Help
People
" Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits. "
Stephen Hawking
History
Great
People
" The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. "
Woodrow Wilson
Strength
Swimming
Man
" 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
Technology
History
I Am
" Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.' "
Maya Angelou
Slavery
Story
Tomorrow
" If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity. "
Cesare Beccaria
Men
History
Free
" I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. "
Colin Powell
History
Now
Might