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" We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. "
Juan Antonio Samaranch
History
Race
Religion
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" And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. "
Lord Acton
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" The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. "
Arthur Koestler
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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. "
Robert Baden-Powell
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" History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield. "
Saul David
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" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "
Will Durant
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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. "
Rabih Alameddine
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" As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. "
Kevin Rudd
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" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Top
" I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration. "
Valentina Tereshkova
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" I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. "
Kanye West
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History
Like
" There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. "
Harry S Truman
You
Nothing
New
" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "
Stephen Hawking
Understand
Time
History
" Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. "
Marge Piercy
Change
Doubt
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" I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. "
Ben Casnocha
History
Map
Just
" We learned the value of research in World War II. "
Amar Bose
War
Research
History
" A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. "
Annie Besant
Cast
History
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" I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life. "
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Struggle
Love
" 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
" Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan. "
Sachin Tendulkar
History
Special
Tough
" Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Risks
You
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" Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. "
Albert Camus
History
Encounter
Happy
" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "
Mitch McConnell
Constitution
History
Independence
" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "
Karl Marx
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" The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. "
Virginia Woolf
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Men
Story
" I don't have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It's what's most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history. "
Giorgio Armani
Consistency
Passion
History
" History is written by the victors. "
Winston Churchill
Victors
Written
History
" You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. "
Stephen Ambrose
Hate
History
You
" 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. "
Mark McKinnon
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Trade
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" In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard. "
Susanna Kearsley
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Years
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" There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. "
Robert Ballard
Now
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History