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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice Walker
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
Gene Tierney
Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
Mike Mills
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.
Alan Shepard
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
Doris Lessing
He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
William Ewart Gladstone
One year they asked me to be poster boy for birth control.
Rodney Dangerfield
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
V. S. Naipaul
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
Orson Scott Card
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
Michael Beschloss
Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
Barbara Jordan
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown
Much history of the world has been lost. How magnificent and confusing what's left is.
James Dye
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
Jonathan Sacks
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot
Mark Twain
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Charles de Gaulle
