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" Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. "

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" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "

C. S. Lewis

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Think

History

" Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. "

" History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. "

" I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. "

" We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. "

" In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" 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 let the American people down. "

" The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. "

" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "

" There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. "

" The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women

Darkest

History

" The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. "

" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" What is history but a fable agreed upon? "

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

Richard Brautigan

Place

Mine

" The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die. "

" 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

History

Aggression

Nothing

" Tokyo style is so specific. And I'm a very big fan of their history. It's pretty simple. A lot of the time, people expect to see the wild style that comes out of Japan, but I think, traditionally, the style is very simple. "

" The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. "

" Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of schedule protection, increasingly scarce in today's DVR world. Cable nets can tolerate small ratings, building hits in progress like 'Breaking Bad,' or marathon their way to a 'Duck Dynasty.' "

" Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan. "

" The people who have really made history are the martyrs. "

" Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history. "

" People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. "

" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

" I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. "

" The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. "

" The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. "