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" One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. "

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" 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. "

" The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. "

A. Whitney Brown

" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "

" When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community. "

" Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. "

Margaret Thatcher

" A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. "

" In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. "

" Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. "

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

Alice Temperley

" I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. "

" I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. "

Martin Scorsese

" Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. "

Conor Cruise O'Brien

" As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. "

" Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change. "

Howard Rheingold

" Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. "

Barbara Ehrenreich

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

" Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. "

" The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. "

" Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. "

" The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. "

" Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. "

Simon Mainwaring

" If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world. "

" What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? "

" I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. "

" Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. "

Timothy Garton Ash

" When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. "

Rusty Schweickart

" History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. "

" For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I think, in a way, my training made it worse for me because I knew how important it was to focus on document-based analysis, and I really didn't want to get stuff wrong. "

" The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. "