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" The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. "
Richard M. Nixon
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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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" Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other. "
Alexander Chee
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" I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. "
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" We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us. "
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" History is Philosophy teaching by example. "
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" Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits. "
Stephen Hawking
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" We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. "
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" If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? "
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" Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. "
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" There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.' "
RuPaul
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" Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. "
Richard M. Nixon
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" 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
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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
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" I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. "
Maya Angelou
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Because
" I don't care about history; all I care about is winning. "
Stipe Miocic
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Winning
I Care
" I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums. "
Yoko Ono
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" History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. "
Lawrence Durrell
Wrong
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" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "
Gore Vidal
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Myself
" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "
Lech Walesa
" So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Discovery
Moment
God
" The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.' "
Erik Erikson
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Also
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" The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. "
Richard M. Nixon
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" As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. "
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Time
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" Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check. "
Marianne Williamson
" My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise. "
Richard M. Nixon
Always
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" I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. "
Richard M. Nixon
Myself
Down
Resigning
" The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer. "
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American
" I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. "
John Burroughs
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" If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Time
Black
" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "
C. S. Lewis
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