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

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" The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable. "

" I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. "

" It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. "

Henry Kissinger

" We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. "

" 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. "

" What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. "

" The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. "

" As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. "

" We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. "

Franklin Pierce Adams

" History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" History is more or less bunk. "

" I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? "

Ferdinand Marcos

" All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. "

" For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. "

Winston Churchill

" So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. "

Milton Friedman

" Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. "

" The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. "

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

Alice Temperley

" When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. "

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. "

William McKinley

" The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. "

Alfred A. Montapert

" We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. "

" I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy. "

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

Mitch McConnell

" Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. "

Carter G. Woodson

" Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream. "

" The history of mankind is the history of ideas. "

Luigi Pirandello