Famous Quotes: History

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
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Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
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Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
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So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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Professional sports are something they can't control.
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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
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