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" Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. "

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" Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. "

Ken Kesey

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" If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? "

" From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. "

" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "

" I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school. "

" Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. "

" History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. "

" Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. "

" I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. "

" I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore. "

" I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. "

" Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. "

" No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology. "

" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "

" This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. "

Gertrude Stein

" History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. "

" Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights. "

" Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. "

" Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. "

" The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.' "

" Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. "

" Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan. "

" Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check. "

Marianne Williamson

" My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing 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. "

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

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

" The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time. "

" The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history. "

" Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. "