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Sally Ride on history
Author: Sally Ride“I did not come to NASA to make history.” -Sally Ride
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James Nasmyth on history
Author: James Nasmyth“OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.” -James Nasmyth
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Paul Harris on history
Author: Paul Harris“Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.” -Paul Harris
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George H. W. Bush on history
Author: George H. W. Bush“History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.” -George H. W. Bush
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Daniel Craig on history
Author: Daniel Craig“It’s a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don’t come along very often so I thought, ‘Why not?’” -Daniel Craig
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David Suzuki on history
Author: David Suzuki“If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.” -David Suzuki
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Carl T. Rowan on history
Author: Carl T. Rowan“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.” -Carl T. Rowan
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Spike Lee on history
Author: Spike Lee“Violence is a part of America. I don’t want to single out rap music. Let’s be honest. America’s the most violent country in the history of the world, that’s just the way it is. We’re all affected by it.” -Spike Lee
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Stephen Harper on history
Author: Stephen Harper“I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we’re going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that’s not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.” -Stephen Harper
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James Buchan on history
Author: James Buchan“Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.” -James Buchan
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Henry Adams on history
Author: Henry Adams“I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.” -Henry Adams
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Anne Roiphe on history
Author: Anne Roiphe“We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn’t always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.” -Anne Roiphe
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Andy Grove on history
Author: Andy Grove“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.” -Andy Grove
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Jonathan Safran Foer on history
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer“Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
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Jon Meacham on history
Author: Jon Meacham“The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.” -Jon Meacham
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Tony Blair on history
Author: Tony Blair“In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.” -Tony Blair
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Michael Pollan on history
Author: Michael Pollan“For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.” -Michael Pollan
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Billy Bragg on history
Author: Billy Bragg“I’m trying to make a case for those people who don’t have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.” -Billy Bragg
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Arthur Erickson on history
Author: Arthur Erickson“What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.” -Arthur Erickson
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Bob Woodward on history
Author: Bob Woodward“After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon’s tapes.” -Bob Woodward
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter on history
Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter“I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.” -Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Dennis Prager on history
Author: Dennis Prager“For all of higher civilization’s recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.” -Dennis Prager
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Rashida Jones on history
Author: Rashida Jones“I don’t think that there’s been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it’s done them any good.” -Rashida Jones