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" The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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" We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. "

" Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. "

Arthur Henderson

" History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

" On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal. "

" 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. "

" For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. "

" I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. "

Richard M. Nixon

" We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form. "

" The people who have really made history are the martyrs. "

Aleister Crowley

" It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. "

Henry David Thoreau

" A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. "

" For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. "

" I am responsible only to God and history. "

Francisco Franco

" I was France. "

Charles de Gaulle

" All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. "

" Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. "

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

" I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man. "

" The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. "

" Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "

Michel Houellebecq

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" If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. "

" There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. "

Claude Vorilhon

" The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. "

" I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world. "

" When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. "