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" There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge. "

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Place

Transformation

History

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Differences

Human

" If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks. "

" Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. "

" People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. "

" I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. "

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

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

" The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. "

" A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. "

" It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. "

" Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. "

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

Winston Churchill

Kind

Will

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. "

" Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. "

" It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present. "

" Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. "

" I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax. "

" The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. "

" What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. "

" Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. "

" More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying. "

Rene Girard

I Am

History

" We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. "

" In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. "

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" As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. "