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" Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. "
Larry Brilliant
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" The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era. "
Jacob Weisberg
World
History
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" I am responsible only to God and history. "
Francisco Franco
I Am
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God
" What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? "
Orson F. Whitney
Honor
Past
Wisdom
" The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history. "
Paul Gillmor
American
Independence
Sacred
" History is Philosophy teaching by example. "
Thucydides
Philosophy
Example
History
" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "
Walter Cronkite
Reading
Past
History
" History is information. Memory is part of your identity. "
David Miliband
Memory
History
Identity
" We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. "
Henry Ford
Today
Live
History
" I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes. "
Nathaniel Philbrick
English
History
Never
" Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. "
Nobu Matsuhisa
History
Peru
Years
" To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' "
V. S. Naipaul
You
Culture
History
" History is a set of lies agreed upon. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Agreed
Set
Lies
" The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. "
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Music
Story
Technology
" When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn't cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been. "
Markwayne Mullin
History
Process
America
" It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. "
Corazon Aquino
History
Who
Been
" No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. "
P. J. O'Rourke
History
You
Way
" If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. "
Nina Garcia
Fashion
History
Style
" 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
" 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
Destiny
History
Woman
" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "
Margaret Thatcher
More
World
Without
" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "
Haile Selassie
Judgment
God
History
" History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Past
Events
History
" The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. "
Wynton Marsalis
Good Times
History
Bad
" I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. "
Pablo Picasso
Believe
Accidents
History
" At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university. "
Hartmut Michel
Chemistry
School
History
" Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "
Confucius
Glory
Our
Time
" History is a vision of God's creation on the move. "
Arnold J. Toynbee
Move
Vision
History
" Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. "
Edward Kennedy
Me
Going
You
" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "
John McCain
Hope
Values
Identity
" As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty. "
Steven Pinker
People
Power
Me