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" Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. "

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" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "

Sarah Bernhardt

" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "

" The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. "

" I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win. "

A. Philip Randolph

" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "

" The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. "

" Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world. "

" Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

" There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go. "

Lal Bahadur Shastri

" Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. "

" We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us. "

" There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. "

" We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. "

" For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. "

" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "

Richard M. Nixon

" It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. "

Thomas Friedman

" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "

" It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years. "

Grover Norquist

" I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people. "

Khabib Nurmagomedov

" Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. "

" For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" 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. "

" In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power. "

" 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. "

" Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. "

" It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. "

" I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. "

" History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. "

Konrad Adenauer

" History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. "