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" Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. "

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" Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. "

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" I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. "

" I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn. "

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

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

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

" Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world. "

" History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am. "

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

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" We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. "

" Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. "

" Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? "

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

" Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. "

" The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. "

" 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? "

" The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. "

" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "

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" Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "

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

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

" History should be written as philosophy. "

" Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done. "

" History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. "

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" There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy. "

" Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history. "

" History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. "

" Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. "

" I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it. "