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" The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. "
Peter L. Berger
Changing
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" Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. "
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" Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. "
Edward Kennedy
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" Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy. "
Eric Metaxas
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" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "
Abraham Lincoln
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" The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. "
Jacques Chirac
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" An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. "
William Manchester
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" People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. "
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" Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction. "
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" I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. "
John Foster Dulles
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" I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books. "
Isabel Allende
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" Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. "
Robert H. Schuller
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" I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people. "
Khabib Nurmagomedov
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" Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' "
Nia Vardalos
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" History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. "
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People
" I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world. "
Paul Keating
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" We learned the value of research in World War II. "
Amar Bose
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" To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' "
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" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "
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" History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. "
David McCullough
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" The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. "
Barbara Tuchman
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" History should be written as philosophy. "
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" So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy. "
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" 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. "
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" What Britain needs is an iron lady. "
Margaret Thatcher
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" I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil. "
Jane Goodall
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" Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. "
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" 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. "
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" A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. "
Walter Scott
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" The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. "
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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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