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" On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. "

Alfred de Vigny

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" Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. "

" History is about loops and continuums. "

" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "

" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "

Abraham Lincoln

" 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 did not come to NASA to make history. "

" History is not hatred. "

" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "

" Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. "

William O. Douglas

" I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out. "

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

" Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. "

" I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. "

" For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. "

Winston Churchill

" The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history. "

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

" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "

Henry Kissinger

" I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. "

" I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. "

" If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "

Carter G. Woodson

" If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. "

Rudyard Kipling

" What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? "

Orson F. Whitney

" People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. "

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Arnold J. Toynbee

" Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. "

Honore de Balzac

" I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you. "

" A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork. "

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "