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" The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. "

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" Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. "

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. "

" Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. "

" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "

" History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse. "

" Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history. "

" For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. "

Winston Churchill

" Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history. "

" 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. "

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" If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. "

" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "

" American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. "

James A. Baldwin

" Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. "

A. J. P. Taylor

" 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. "

" Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. "

" Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "

George Santayana

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

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" Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. "

Conor Cruise O'Brien

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

" If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light. "

Pope Benedict XVI

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

" Throughout human history, some of our most influential inventors, entrepreneurs, and leaders have had disabilities. For example, Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson, and Charles Schwab are all dyslexic, while scientist Stephen Hawking has used a wheelchair for decades. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? "

" The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society. "

" The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day. "

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" Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. "

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