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" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "

Sturgill Simpson

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" One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. "

" How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. "

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" Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us. "

" Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history. "

" 'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself. "

" There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. "

" To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore. "

" It's a very good historical book about history. "

" I came, I saw, I conquered. "

" 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. "

" The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day. "

John C. Maxwell

" Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. "

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" The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. "

" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "

Sturgill Simpson

" History is a relay of revolutions. "

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

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

" When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. "

" 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. "

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" History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. "

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" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

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" Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio. "

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" We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. "

John F. Kennedy

" 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. "

" History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. "

History Repeats Itself