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" Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. "
Doris Kearns Goodwin
White
Audience
History
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" Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. "
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" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "
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" History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. "
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" The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. "
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" Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. "
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" I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home. "
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" The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. "
Benjamin Disraeli
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" It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. "
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" Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. "
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" The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.' "
Jennifer Sky
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" The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. "
A. Whitney Brown
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" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "
Warren Buffett
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" By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. "
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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. "
Barbara Tuchman
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History
" Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
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" There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. "
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Nature
" Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without
Unique
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" 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. "
Queen Elizabeth II
Garden
You
Impossible
" If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. "
Thomas Merton
History
Political
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" The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf. "
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" Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. "
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" How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected. "
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" A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. "
Emile Durkheim
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" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "
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" The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. "
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" 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. "
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" I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like. "
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