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" The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

" 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

" Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world. "

" There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.' "

" History is a relay of revolutions. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

" I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves. "

Francis Fukuyama

" Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. "

" The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. "

Peter L. Berger

" Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other. "

" I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history. "

David Christian

" My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. "

John Henrik Clarke

" I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. "

" There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. "

" 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. "

" For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. "

" The main thing is to make history, not to write it. "

Otto von Bismarck

" The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. "

" The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. "

" The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

" The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. "

Wynton Marsalis

" Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form. "

" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. "

" 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

" It's a very good historical book about history. "

" I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. "

" I'm a big tradition guy. If you love this country and study history, then you will love Boston. "

Marcus Luttrell

" Time is my greatest enemy. "