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" The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. "
A. Whitney Brown
Down
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" Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. "
Jacques Chirac
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" I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. "
Martin Scorsese
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" I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.' "
Tom Wolfe
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" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "
Richard M. Nixon
You
History
Innocent
" Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. "
Scott Pelley
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" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "
Margaret Thatcher
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" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "
Haile Selassie
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God
History
" Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. "
Steve Jobs
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Apple
" The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. "
Kim Il-sung
Truth
History
Simple
" We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive. "
Chris Stapleton
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Fun
Hat
" My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made. "
Jorge Ramos
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You
Dream
" Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy. "
Nestor Carbonell
You
Nice
Me
" I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man. "
Douglas Booth
History
He
Man
" The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Most
Organization
Country
" So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. "
Phillip Noyce
Story
Questions
Opportunity
" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "
Virginia Woolf
Anonymous
History
Most
" If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. "
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Suffering
Find
History
" History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. "
Robert Johnson
History
Individual
Pendulum
" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "
Margaret Mead
Time
Television
History
" Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. "
Fidel Castro
Does
History
Matter
" I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up. "
Alan Bennett
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Doing
History
" There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. "
Woodrow Wilson
Hot
Great
Wrath
" Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. "
Ibrahim Babangida
Views
Culture
Debate
" We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. "
Edward Bond
People
Still
Scars
" Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.' "
Malala Yousafzai
Trust
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Name
" 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. "
Edmund Morgan
Past
History
Race
" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "
George Santayana
History
Never
People
" I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like. "
Natalie Dormer
Walking
Know
History
" Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. "
Barry Goldwater
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Fast
Wife