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People who are creating history don't realize they're creating it at the time it's happening.
A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
I say to people all the time, it is OK to fail. Some of the greatest successes in the history of America started out as failures.
There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
People talk about Thatcherism all the time. I felt it was important to record the memories of those almost written out of history who upheld the spirit of '45.
Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little.
Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.
When we talk about people or a party being on the wrong side of history, it usually requires some hindsight, a position of informed advantage to see clearly missteps that were less clear at the time of events.
People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
People in the United States are highly transient. Families move from state to state. So why do we take a full year - in some states, two years - to study state history? It takes time away from more important topics.
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.
There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere.