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" The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. "

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" There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. "

" I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves. "

Francis Fukuyama

" Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history. "

" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "

Henry Kissinger

" A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. "

" Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. "

Pope John Paul II

" The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. "

" Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. "

Mary McLeod Bethune

" We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. "

" By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries. "

" One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. "

" That great dust-heap called 'history'. "

Augustine Birrell

" The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

" 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

" I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy. "

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

" A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent. "

Brett Kavanaugh

" It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. "

" Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form. "

" I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. "

" 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. "

Franklin Pierce Adams

" History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. "

" These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. "

Michael N. Castle

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. "

" Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest. "

" We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. "

" You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. "

David McCullough

" We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works. "

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