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" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "
Aldous Huxley
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" One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. "
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" 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. "
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" In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. "
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" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "
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" The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.' "
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" I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. "
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" The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.' "
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" That great dust-heap called 'history'. "
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" To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. "
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" I don't think you can erase history. "
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" Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration. "
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" And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. "
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" I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people. "
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" Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. "
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" If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. "
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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. "
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" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "
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" Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. "
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" Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. "
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" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "
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" 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. "
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" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "
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" The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. "
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" There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history. "
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" Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. "
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" Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. "
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" When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community. "
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