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" The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. "

Edwin Powell Hubble

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" I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. "

Shirley Chisholm

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

Georges Clemenceau

" The main thing is to make history, not to write it. "

Otto von Bismarck

" Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. "

" History is Philosophy teaching by example. "

" In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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. "

" The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

" Time is my greatest enemy. "

" I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. "

" Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. "

" I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home. "

Deborah Moggach

" 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. "

" Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. "

" The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. "

" Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. "

Ibrahim Babangida

" The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism. "

Bernard Williams

" There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. "

" 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. "

" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. "

" There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. "

Edward R. Murrow

" 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. "

" Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history. "

" The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life. "

" The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. "

" It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly. "

" 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. "