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

Honore de Balzac

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" I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it. "

" History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality. "

" History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. "

" This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. "

" The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. "

" We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. "

" No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. "

Honore de Balzac

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

" Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. "

Honore de Balzac

" On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal. "

" History never looks like history when you are living through it. "

John W. Gardner

" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "

" 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? "

" One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. "

Emmeline Pankhurst

" I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. "

" The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism. "

Bernard Williams

" Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. "

" A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona. "

Rabih Alameddine

" To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. "

" The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. "

" Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. "

Jefferson Davis

" Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. "

" 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. "

" We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny. "

Oscar de la Renta

" When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. "

" History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb. "

" I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.' "

" The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. "

" Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. "

Honore de Balzac