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" We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. "

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" If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. "

" It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge. "

" The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too. "

Frances Beinecke

" The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. "

" Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. "

" I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that. "

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

Irving R. Kaufman

" The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books. "

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" I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. "

Martin Scorsese

" Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "

Dante Alighieri

" The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. "

Elizabeth Warren

" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "

Susan B. Anthony

" As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed. "

" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "

Sarah Bernhardt

" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "

" Sometimes - history needs a push. "

" Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. "

David Cronenberg

" Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! "

Nikita Khrushchev

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

" The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. "

Richard M. Nixon

" A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. "

Grover Cleveland

" I came, I saw, I conquered. "

" For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity. "

Margot Lee Shetterly

" What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? "

Philip Zimbardo

" Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. "

" In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "

" I don't think you can erase history. "

Johnny Van Zant

" Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. "

" Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. "