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" We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works. "
Shervin Pishevar
World
Way
History
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" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "
David Lowery
Candle
History
Time
" A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. "
Emile Durkheim
History
Religion
Society
" If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. "
James J. Hill
You
Trade
Hold
" One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Work Hard
Good
History
" Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not. "
Peter Dinklage
History
Life
Just Because
" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "
Haile Selassie
Judgment
God
History
" History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. "
Abba Eban
History
Nations
Us
" What we're trying to accomplish is the cheapest, fastest, cleanest form of major public transportation. There's economic value in being able to move people and things fast - and without any delays, because the hyperloop is impervious to weather. "
Shervin Pishevar
People
Weather
Value
" Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history. "
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
History
Culture
Because
" If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. "
Anselm Kiefer
Depressing
History
Life
" One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. "
William O. Douglas
Amendment
Protest
History
" I am going to spend more time face-to-face with my friends and family. I am going to unplug more. "
Shervin Pishevar
Family
Time
I Am
" 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. "
John Piper
Thinking
History
Philosophy
" A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. "
John Maynard Keynes
Necessary
Study
Opinion
" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "
Colin Powell
World
Time
Percent
" I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. "
Dizzy Gillespie
Music
Think
Time
" You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work. "
Christina Romer
Financial
History
Work
" I don't think you can erase history. "
Johnny Van Zant
History
You
Think
" I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. "
Judy Chicago
I Am
History
Believe
" Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' "
Nia Vardalos
Women
Believe
Daughter
" History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. "
Robert Johnson
History
Individual
Pendulum
" History is a relay of revolutions. "
Saul Alinsky
Relay
History
Revolutions
" I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. "
Richard M. Nixon
I Can
Acting
See
" History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. "
Alexis de Tocqueville
Gallery
History
Many
" The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. "
Tom Chatfield
History
Reading
Writing
" The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. "
Vladimir Lenin
Working
Class
Effort
" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "
Warren Buffett
History
Game
People
" Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. "
John Hersey
Live
Opportunity
History
" The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf. "
Nigel Hamilton
War
Story
History
" Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. "
William Hague
World
Stop
Violence