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" The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. "

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" More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying. "

" Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. "

" Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. "

" I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history. "

" Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history. "

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

" 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

" 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

" If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. "

" Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. "

Winston Churchill

" Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. "

" France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. "

Francois Mitterrand

" There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. "

" Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.' "

" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

" Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. "

" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "

" History is a set of lies agreed upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics. "

" In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from. "

" I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. "

" Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. "

" Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. "

Barbara Ehrenreich

" Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. "

" Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. "

Douglas MacArthur

" History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. "

George Bernard Shaw

" What Britain needs is an iron lady. "

Margaret Thatcher

" Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. "