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" The people who have really made history are the martyrs. "
Aleister Crowley
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" The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years. "
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" History is Philosophy teaching by example. "
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" What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? "
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" Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of schedule protection, increasingly scarce in today's DVR world. Cable nets can tolerate small ratings, building hits in progress like 'Breaking Bad,' or marathon their way to a 'Duck Dynasty.' "
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" Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change. "
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" If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind. "
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" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "
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" On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. "
Alfred de Vigny
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" Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. "
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" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "
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" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "
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" A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. "
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" We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. "
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" You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters. "
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" There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy. "
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" Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. "
C. Wright Mills
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" You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. "
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Place
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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" I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. "
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