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" The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. "

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" I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. "

" A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. "

John Maynard Keynes

" In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

Mitch McConnell

" History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. "

" If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity. "

Cesare Beccaria

" Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. "

" There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame. "

" Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! "

Nikita Khrushchev

" 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

" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "

" I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place. "

" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. "

" I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up. "

" You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. "

" There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time. "

" To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. "

" 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. "

" History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. "

" Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. "

" 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. "

" It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. "

Henry David Thoreau

" The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy. "

" A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. "

" Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "

Dante Alighieri

" History is information. Memory is part of your identity. "

" Time is my greatest enemy. "

" History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life. "