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" You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. "

David McCullough

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" Real Madrid is like Manchester United or Liverpool or Bayern Munich. There is so much history, and you need to play and win against that history. It's difficult to play against them because you fight against everything - the history, the players - but because of that, the motivation is always so high. "

Fernando Torres

" Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. "

" History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality. "

" The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. "

" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

" History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life. "

" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

" History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. "

Philip Guedalla

History Repeats Itself

" Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. "

Timothy Garton Ash

" My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. "

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

" History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. "

" The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable. "

" 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. "

" Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "

Dante Alighieri

" Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. "

" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. "

" The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. "

Stephen Hawking

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "

" More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying. "

" In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know. "

David McCullough

" A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. "

" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "

" I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums. "

" Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. "

B. H. Liddell Hart

" We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. "

Franklin Pierce Adams

" American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. "

James A. Baldwin

" 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. "