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" Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream. "
Tom Waits
Memory
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History
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" Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. "
Jacques Chirac
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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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" My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. "
Jose Mujica
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" It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. "
Henry David Thoreau
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" Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. "
Richard M. Nixon
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" Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us. "
David Crystal
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" The '60s is such an explosive period. It was very interesting for me because I grew up in Canada, and obviously, I know some American history because I've lived here for many years, and even in Canada, that does permeate. "
Stephanie Savage
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" Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. "
Tom Waits
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" I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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" I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.' "
Tom Wolfe
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" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "
Margaret Thatcher
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" Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. "
Timothy Garton Ash
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" They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. "
Douglas MacArthur
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Men
History
" If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku. "
H. W. Brands
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" A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. "
F. Sionil Jose
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" If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. "
Black Elk
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" Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "
Dante Alighieri
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Top
" We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. "
Franklin Pierce Adams
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Nothing
" History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. "
Clarence Darrow
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Wrong
" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "
Gore Vidal
Gossip
History
Hope
" We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. "
Henry Ford
Today
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" When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. "
Barack Obama
" I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win. "
A. Philip Randolph
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" I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. "
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" 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
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" History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' "
Eduardo Galeano
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You
" Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. "
Hermann Hesse
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" In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
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" I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? "
Ferdinand Marcos
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" Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered. "
Iris Apfel
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