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" We learned the value of research in World War II. "
Amar Bose
War
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" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "
Lech Walesa
" 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
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" Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. "
Donald Trump
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" I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation. "
Brian Wilson
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" India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. "
Anita Desai
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Past
" It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. "
V. S. Naipaul
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" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "
Susan B. Anthony
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Dogs
" I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it. "
Barack Obama
" I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me. "
Ted Kulongoski
Judge
Judge Me
Very
" If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You
Black
History
" One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. "
Albert Schweitzer
Truth
Strong
Spiritual
" I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. "
Ben Casnocha
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Just
" The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. "
Nikola Tesla
Better
Truth
Science
" 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
" I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. "
Herbert Hoover
Him
History
Depression
" I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil. "
Jane Goodall
Looking
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History
" There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. "
Karl Popper
Political
World
Power
" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "
George Eliot
History
City
Travel
" The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the three Abrahamic religions, the greatest millenarian rapture of human history. "
Simon Sebag Montefiore
History
World
Revolution
" Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. "
Mary McLeod Bethune
History
Time
Development
" I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. "
Martin Scorsese
Fall
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Studying
" I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. "
Edward Snowden
History
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Right
" History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. "
Ken Burns
History
Light
Assumptions
" Strip malls are history. "
Jeff Bezos
Malls
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Strip
" The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. "
Frank Waters
Romantic
Seen
Joke
" If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! "
William Makepeace Thackeray
Interesting
Thoughts
History
" One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. "
Peace Pilgrim
History
Giving
Time
" I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves. "
Francis Fukuyama
Power
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History
" So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. "
Milton Friedman
People
Way
Free
" There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. "
Ansel Adams
Art
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Nature