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" We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. "
John F. Kennedy
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" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "
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" 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. "
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" When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. "
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" History shows that there are no invincible armies. "
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" The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. "
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" The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history. "
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" There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men. "
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" History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. "
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" An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. "
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" Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. "
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" Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. "
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" Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. "
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" I don't care about history; all I care about is winning. "
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" How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. "
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" There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. "
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" If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different. "
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" If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind. "
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" A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona. "
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" There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. "
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" To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. "
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" Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "
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" Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. "
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" In history, the millions win; that is democracy. "
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" I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. "
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" The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. "
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" A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense. "
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