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" 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. "
George Eliot
History
City
Travel
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" All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. "
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" Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. "
George Eliot
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" The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. "
Leon Redbone
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" There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame. "
Anne Donovan
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" If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity. "
Cesare Beccaria
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" Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. "
Jared Diamond
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" Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly. "
Octavio Paz
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" One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. "
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" Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt. "
Jimmy Iovine
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" The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. "
Vladimir Putin
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" The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ. "
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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God
" By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries. "
Edmund Morgan
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History
Race
" History is more or less bunk. "
Henry Ford
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Less
" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "
David Lowery
Candle
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Time
" Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "
Harry S Truman
Mouth
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Time
" The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. "
Ha-Joon Chang
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Most
Important
" The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. "
George Eliot
Life
Sand
Past
" For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them. "
John Ridley
History
Black
Children
" Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. "
Barbara Tuchman
Science
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History
" There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. "
Michelle Obama
Made
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Still
" 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. "
C. S. Lewis
Bad
People
History
" The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. "
Woodrow Wilson
Strength
Swimming
Man
" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "
Alan Watts
America
People
Universe
" If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. "
Desmond Tutu
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Elephant
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" Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us. "
Phil Anselmo
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Music
Yourself
" Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true. "
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Golf
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" A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. "
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Taste
" But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. "
George Eliot
Away
Done
Feeling
" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "
Will Durant
Guessing
Rest
Prejudice
" History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. "
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Intentions
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