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" What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. "

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" The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past. "

Alycia Debnam-Carey

" Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. "

" There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. "

" Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. "

" Passivity is the same as defending injustice. "

" We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life. "

" You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. "

" In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. "

" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "

" Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed. "

" The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society. "

" 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. "

" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "

" The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. "

" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "

" Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. "

" It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place. "

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. "

David Ebershoff

" In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from. "

" We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. "

" I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore. "

" We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. "

" Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought. "

Charles Spurgeon

" Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion. "

" What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos. "

" I don't care about history; all I care about is winning. "

" Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of schedule protection, increasingly scarce in today's DVR world. Cable nets can tolerate small ratings, building hits in progress like 'Breaking Bad,' or marathon their way to a 'Duck Dynasty.' "

" The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. "