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" The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. "

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" 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

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Men

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" Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. "

" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "

" The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day. "

" If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different. "

" The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. "

" As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. "

" 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. "

" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "

" OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. "

James Nasmyth

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Born

" I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? "

" 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? "

" Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "

" We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. "

" Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. "

" Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. "

" I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be. "

" I am responsible only to God and history. "

" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

" Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. "

" Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy. "

" 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. "

" Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction. "

" All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. "

Richard Brautigan

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Mine

" The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past. "

" Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' "

" When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it. "

" While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. "

" It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. "

" If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. "