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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
Queen Elizabeth Ii
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Monarch
History
Aim
Commonwealth
Land
Majesty
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Splendid
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Years
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Living
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I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.
Billie Jean King
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Tennis Player
History
Sports
Goes On
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When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.
Edward Gibbon
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Historian
Age
History
Pride
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Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
Samora Machel
/
Political Leader
History
Society
Contribution
Done
Important
Mentality
Our Generation
Principal
Revolution
Struggle
Build
Understand
Armed
Create
Essential
Generation
Record
Realized
The Most Important
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If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
Eric Schmidt
/
Software Engineer
Positive
History
Technology
War
Compression
Couple
Effects
Example
Hundred
Terrible
World War I
Time War History
Less
For Example
Globe
Hundred Years
Led
Likely
Making
Misunderstandings
Smaller
The History Of
World War
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The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.
George Lucas
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Film Director
Education
Motivational
Movie
Architecture
Business
History
Economics
Film
Good Education
Movie Business
Psychology
Secret
Skills
Education History Good
Besides
Help
Skill
Subject
Unless
Whether
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Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.
Edward Gibbon
/
Historian
Opportunity
History
Years
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I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
Samuel L. Jackson
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Film Actor
Education
History
Character
College
Criticize
Donate
Father
Finished
Good Father
Husband
Married
Son
Education History Good
History Good Money
Education Good Money
Anonymously
Characters
Woman
Friend
Screen
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The earth's history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climatic cycle where we get 90,000 years of ice age and 10,000 years of a warm period. I think people today just have the expectation that we deserve a perfectly benign climate forever.
Hugh Ross
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Creationist
Age
History
Benign
Deserve
Dramatic
Earth
Forever
Ice
Ice Age
Today
Warm
Years
Through
Cycle
Period
Expectation
Over
Million
Million Years
Perfectly
Several
Where
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When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.
Arthur Koestler
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Author
History
Men
Passion
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The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.
Freya Stark
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Explorer
Journey
History
Past
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It has taken a lot of persuasion for me to take part in an official documentary about 'Only Fools and Horses.' But, as time has gone on, it seems to have been imprinted in television history, and I thought it was only right that I tried to give an accurate insight into how the show was put together.
David Jason
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Actor
History
Accurate
Insight
Persuasion
Seems
Taken
Television
Together
Time History Me
Time Together Me
Time History Together
Show
Documentary
Fools
Horses
Imprinted
Official
Tried
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The first humans to come to Canada were the Indians. There is some mystery as to where the Indians came from. Some experts say that they came from the same place as the Eskimo. This doesn't help much because nobody knows where the Eskimo came from either. (Except the Eskimo, and they aren't talking.)
Eric Nicol
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Writer
History
Canada
Talking
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Gail Collins
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Journalist
Family
History
American History
Family Life
Ideas
Impact
Jackie
Made
President
Two
Life History People
Life Family People
Life Family History
Since
American
Idea
Central
Could
Identified
Ladies
One Or Two
Recognized
Roosevelt
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I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
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Industrialist
History
Giving
Mean
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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
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Soccer Player
History
Difficult
Liverpool
Madrid
Manchester
Manchester United
Real
Against
Fight
High
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'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for.
Shane Carruth
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Film Writer
Future
History
Color
Enough
Judged
Long
Merit
Order
Particular
Relevant
Life Future Hope
Life Future History
Either
However
Infect
Level
Upstream
Whether
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I want to help Leeds United return to the level our history and fans deserve. When I came to the club, I gave myself three years to deliver that and my vision remains the same: return the club to its rightful place in the Premier League and make our fans, players and staff proud of their football team.
Andrea Radrizzani
/
History
Deserve
Fans
Football
Football Team
League
Leeds
Premier League
Proud
Remains
Return
Staff
Team
Three
Vision
Years
Came
Club
Deliver
Gave
Help
Place
Premier
Rightful
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If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.
Joshua Greenberg
/
History
People
Writing
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Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.
Edward Herrmann
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Television Actor
Beauty
Car
History
Automobile
Company
Engineering
Sheer
Sound
Uniqueness
Sure
Been
Part
Course
Engine
Moves
My Life
The History Of
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The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.
Trevor Paglen
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Artist
Knowledge
History
Human History
Internet
Mass
Surveillance
Totalitarianism
Greatest
Also
Communications
Effective
Human
Global
Means
Instrument
Potentially
Sharing
Supposed
The History Of
Tool
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The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.
John Stuart Mill
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Philosopher
History
War
Enemy Of Progress
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Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.
Paul Johnson
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Journalist
Religion
Faith
History
Science
Dogma
Example
Followers
Global Warming
Marxism
Offers
Particular
People
Proof
Little
Faith Science Religion
History Science Religion
Faith History Religion
Scale
Creed
Examples
Fanatical
Global
Grand
Substitute
Warming
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Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.
Richard Armour
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Poet
History
Plot
Thinking
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
Orson F. Whitney
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Wisdom
History
Ancient
Ancient Times
Babylon
Eminence
Greece
Honor
Persia
Rome
Said
Universal
Wealth
Answer
Without
Times
Mightiest
Overthrow
Possessions
Powers
Principle
Successive
Where
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The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
Shaun Tan
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Illustrator
Wisdom
History
Accidents
Arriving
Creative
Logic
Mistake
Results
Serendipity
Successful
More
Act
Much
Any
Only
Original
Write
Part
Concept
Full
Creative Act
Draw
Inventions
Necessary
Realise
Than
Unintended
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There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.
David Lowery
/
History
Process
I Am Me Step
Ahead
History I Am Me
Choose
Old
Directions
Gravitate
Towards
Homes
Long Process
Occupy
Palpable
Reasons
Sense
Step
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The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again.
Daniel Defoe
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Writer
History
Europe
World
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To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most of the useful and respectable, qualifications. The character in which both the one and the other should be united and harmonised would seem to constitute the most perfect idea of human nature.
Edward Gibbon
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Historian
History
Character
Ideas
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For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.
Akio Toyoda
/
Quality
History
Assembly
Empowering
Halt
Problem
Reliability
Team
Toyota
Begin
Again
Cord
Device
Line
Production
Member
Move
Placing
Resolved
Vehicles
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History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
Bill Nye
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Educator
History
Past
People
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Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action use - and have used throughout history - to solve their problems and achieve their greatest triumphs. Not in the classroom but on the battlefield, in the forum, and at court.
Ryan Holiday
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Author
History
Achieve
Action
Classroom
Court
Dense
Lecturing
Men And Women
Reading
Solve
Talking
Used
History Men Women
Men Women Long
Greatest
Books
Battlefield
Fact
History Women Men
Forum
In Fact
Problems
Throughout
Triumphs
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
Damien Hirst
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Artist
Future
History
Disturbing
Honest
Immortal
Inventing
Invincible
Limitless
Thinking
Young
Change Future History
Anything
Bit
Find
Older
Least
Possibilities
Suddenly
To Be Honest
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One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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Activist
History
Impatient
Mother
Patient
Ready
Everybody
Attended
First
Feed
Cries
Fed
Indefinitely
Makes
Other
Well
Perfectly
Unpleasant
Waits
Which
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The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.
Jacob Burckhardt
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Historian
History
Firsts
Movement
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Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.
Hermann Goring
/
History
Hurt
People
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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.
Ameen Rihani
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Writer
Age
History
Truth
Fancy
Following
Garments
Mind
Priests
Repeats
Seasons
Temper
Also
Artists
True
Year
Itself
Present
Poets
Prophets
Recognize
Seldom
Slant
Span
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To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?
Barbara Tuchman
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Historian
History
Events
Smoking
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I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.
George Clooney
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Actor
History
Burned
Conservative
Country
Salem
Social
Trials
Witch
Liberal
Qualities
Stake
View
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Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.
Dennis Prager
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Radio Host
History
Society
Children
Polygamy
Sex
Years
Within
Child
Allowed
Define
Families
Longer
Marriages
Societies
None
Union
Recorded
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
Ville Valo
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Singer-Songwriter
Death
History
Band
Different
Hot
Lying
Majesty
Mean
Particular
Remember
Said
Thinking
Ask
Totally
Stand
Almost
Does
Name
Joke
Derives
Lie
Means
Him
Infernal
Interview
Latest
Metal
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
/
16Th U.s. President
History
Administration
Citizens
Congress
Dishonor
Fiery
Honor
Insignificance
Light
Remembered
Significance
Spite
Another
Cannot
Through
Down
Escape
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Generation
Latest
Pass
Personal
Spare
This Administration
Trial
We Cannot
Which
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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
Salma Hayek
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Film Actress
History
Baby
Care
Chemistry
Delivering
Energetic
Fearless
Grandmother
Medicine
Mexico
Poet
Also
Arranged
Babies
Interested
Talented
Forced
Her
She
Songwriter
Taking
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Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.
Edward Gibbon
/
Historian
Art
History
Might
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
Adam Hamilton
/
Pastor
Religion
History
Science
Care
Church
Growing Up
Math
Parent
Public School
Reading
School
Sunday
Sunday School
Teach
Wanted
Youth
History Science Religion
Job
Also
Did
Public
Group
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History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story.
Rumaan Alam
/
History
Black
Black History
Disbelief
House
Logic
Reader
Segregation
Young
Why
Asked
Devoid
Frustrate
Parents
Tell
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Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Writer
History
Events
Way
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This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle.
Edward Gibbon
/
Historian
History
Curiosity
Law
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
Rahm Emanuel
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Mayor Of Chicago
Jobs
Women
History
War
America
Auto Industry
Economy
Fall
Fighting
Frozen
House
Industry
Lost
Men And Women
President
President Obama
Three
White
White House
History Men Women
Men Women Fighting
More
Had
Obama
Auto
Back
Banks
Bravest
Were
Wars
Entered
History Women Men
Would
Longest
Million
Soon
Than
Uniform
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When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.
Margaret Geller
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Astrophysicist
Amazing
History
Space
Earth
Galaxy
Instance
Light
Looking Back
Years
Looking
Amazing Thing
Away
Back
Billion
Exactly
Space Time History
Record
Reach
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