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" 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

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" Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. "

George Bernard Shaw

" The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

" Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin. "

" History is a set of lies agreed upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. "

" Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me. "

" You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. "

Stephen Ambrose

" The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. "

" They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. "

Douglas MacArthur

" You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. "

David McCullough

" As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed. "

" Manchester United are not just some club. To be part of this club also means to be part of a great history. "

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "

" When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history. "

" We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. "

David Ebershoff

" If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "

Carter G. Woodson

" The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over. "

" Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "

Abraham Lincoln

" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "

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

Jefferson Davis

" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. "

Georges Clemenceau

" 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? "

" The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. "

" I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school. "

" I came, I saw, I conquered. "

" 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. "

" 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. "