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" To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. "
Michael Beschloss
Remember
Father
History
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" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "
Margaret Mead
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Television
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" The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Terrible
You
Most
" OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. "
James Nasmyth
Ancestors
Born
Us
" My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history. "
Alice Temperley
History
Favourite
Antique
" There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. "
Isaac Newton
Authenticity
Sure
Bible
" In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. "
Gary Hamel
Organization
You
Long
" 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
World
Think
History
" History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. "
Hugh Evans
Action
Simple
People
" A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. "
Peter Cooper
Reason
True
Events
" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "
Condoleezza Rice
History
Judgment
Rarely
" Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. "
Madeleine Albright
Men
History
Jewelry
" It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence. "
Richard Cohen
Life
Appreciate
History
" History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality. "
Seth Moulton
Ideas
Great
History
" The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive. "
Kim Novak
Loved
History
Trees
" Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. "
Kofi Annan
Poverty
Hope
World
" On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal. "
Thomas Perez
Debate
Law
Country
" When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn't cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been. "
Markwayne Mullin
History
Process
America
" A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected. "
William Shockley
Creation
History
Truth
" I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world. "
Paul Keating
World
Positive
History
" Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. "
B. H. Liddell Hart
Hope
History
Hopelessness
" Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. "
Walt Whitman
History
Judging
Always
" The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. "
Byron White
Speak
Spend
Right
" History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse. "
Ben Bernanke
Stock Market
Financial
History
" I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently. "
Lucas Neff
Loved
Struggle
History
" No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. "
P. J. O'Rourke
History
You
Way
" The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. "
Myles Munroe
History
King
Live
" Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. "
Catherine Helen Spence
Impossible
History
Community
" The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. "
Edmund White
People
Thought
History
" The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. "
Nikita Khrushchev
Peace
Room
Less
" One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. "
Stephen Kinzer
History
World
Changes