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" The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. "
Lawrence Summers
History
Important
Economic
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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. "
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" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "
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" When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. "
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" Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. "
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" I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. "
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" Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular. "
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" All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. "
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" Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. "
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" You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government. "
Lawrence Summers
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" Time is my greatest enemy. "
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" Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world. "
Steven Pinker
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" A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine. "
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" History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. "
Malcolm X
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" History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' "
Eduardo Galeano
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" I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history. "
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" If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! "
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" 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. "
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" Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. "
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" 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. "
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" I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right. "
Lawrence Summers
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" In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. "
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" The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results. "
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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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" Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. "
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