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" The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. "

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" If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Sometimes - history needs a push. "

" Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. "

" At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace. "

" One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. "

William O. Douglas

" We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. "

" Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.' "

" 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. "

Irving R. Kaufman

" A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected. "

William Shockley

" The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive. "

" 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. "

" All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. "

Richard Brautigan

" History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them. "

" Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? "

" History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' "

Eduardo Galeano

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

Mitch McConnell

" 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. "

" Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

" 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. "

" Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. "

" Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. "

Barbara Ehrenreich

" Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents. "

" My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it. "

Robert Zoellick

" History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. "

Clarence Darrow

History Repeats Itself

" History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. "

History Repeats Itself

" 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. "

" The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. "

" It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone. "

" There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge. "

Doris Kearns Goodwin

" History is a relay of revolutions. "