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" The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. "

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" Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. "

Norodom Sihanouk

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

" What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. "

" The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. "

" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "

" I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. "

Stephen Hawking

" If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. "

" 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

" I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. "

" It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. "

" If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. "

" Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. "

David Cronenberg

" A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. "

John Maynard Keynes

" 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. "

" History is about loops and continuums. "

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

Lin-Manuel Miranda

" Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s. "

Barry Eichengreen

" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "

" As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. "

Ludwig von Mises

" Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. "

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

" I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. "

" I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine. "

" All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars. "

" 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

" America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. "

" The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. "

Bertrand Russell

" There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. "

Benjamin Harrison

" The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.' "