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" 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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" The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. "

Jill Lepore

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" Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. "

" 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. "

" I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it. "

Barack Obama

" The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results. "

" Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. "

" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "

Margaret Thatcher

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" 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. "

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

" Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true. "

" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "

" The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. "

" I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

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Say

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" Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. "

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

" While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. "

" Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. "

" I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. "

" History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. "

" 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. "

" The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. "

" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "

" The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable. "

" I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place. "

" Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done. "

" I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. "

" It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years. "

" As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. "

" One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. "

" When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. "

Barack Obama