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" To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. "

Irving R. Kaufman

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" A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. "

" If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales. "

" The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. "

" The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable. "

" Strip malls are history. "

" 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. "

" More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. "

" If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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.' "

" A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. "

" It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. "

" I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. "

" You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. "

" Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. "

Edward Kennedy

Going

You

" One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. "

" To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. "

" I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books. "

" The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. "

" 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. "

" It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. "

" As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. "

" A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine. "

Steven Biko

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History

" A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent. "

" There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.' "

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

Catherine Helen Spence

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History

Community

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