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" The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. "
Lance Morrow
Culture
Wild
History
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" Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability. "
Frans van Houten
Growth
Victory
History
" 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. "
Peter Navarro
History
Mistake
Worst
" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "
Colin Powell
World
Time
Percent
" Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often. "
John Burroughs
People
Important
Moral
" Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. "
Robert Orben
Selling
Time
True
" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "
Stephen Hawking
Understand
Time
History
" I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history. "
Henry Petroski
Find
History
Interesting
" More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. "
Kofi Annan
Together
Why
Face
" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "
Lech Walesa
" I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. "
Barack Obama
" People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. "
James A. Baldwin
History
Them
People
" Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. "
George Bernard Shaw
Said
Right
Never
" 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. "
Noam Chomsky
Training
Truth
History
" The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. "
Tom Chatfield
History
Reading
Writing
" There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. "
William Halsey
Men
Ordinary
Circumstances
" I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. "
John Burroughs
Feeling
Go
History
" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "
Margaret Mead
Young
History
Seeing
" Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. "
Norodom Sihanouk
Place
Dishonesty
Time
" No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day. "
Richard Jefferies
Sight
Men
Hands
" Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. "
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Anything
History
Principles
" History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention. "
Quavo
History
You
Attention
" There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. "
Frank Sinatra
Name
Peace
Religion
" 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
Time
Research
Know
" Live out of your imagination, not your history. "
Stephen Covey
Out
Your
Live
" Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. "
Dick Gregory
Black
Me
Progress
" I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. "
Kanye West
Too
History
Like
" I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. "
Shirley Chisholm
Black
America
Woman
" When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. "
Rusty Schweickart
Life
Earth
History
" History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. "
Lin-Manuel Miranda
History
Determines
Subjective
" I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. "
Robert Frost
World
Washington
Say