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" The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. "

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David McCullough

" So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. "

Milton Friedman

" Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. "

Barry Goldwater

" If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc. "

Friedrich Engels

" Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. "

" The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results. "

" 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. "

" Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. "

" I let the American people down. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Live out of your imagination, not your history. "

" Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought. "

Charles Spurgeon

" People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. "

" The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. "

" If you think you have it tough, read history books. "

" Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. "

Margaret Thatcher

" It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. "

" Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. "

" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "

Stephen Hawking

" September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. "

" It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge. "

" In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. "

" Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. "

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

" If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history. "

" So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them. "

" 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. "

" The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time. "