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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Richard M. Nixon
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
Henry Louis Gates
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
Polly Toynbee
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
Terry Eagleton
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'
Tony Kushner
What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper 4 times 3 while I was reading it
Rodney Dangerfield
She was so fat that when I hit her with my car she asked why I didn't go around her and I said that I didn't think I had enough gas.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She was so ugly that the last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
Anita Roddick
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
Haile Gebrselassie
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
My wife made me join her bridge club ... I jump next Tuesday.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
We can learn from history on condition that we understand it is history.
Roger Kaplan
The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.
Kedar Joshi
