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		I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eduard Shevardnadze 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edgar Mitchell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malcolm X 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Manolo Blahnik 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gavin Bryars 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabe Newell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Cole 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Kleenex would have made a mint today. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Harvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Scott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		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 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. William Fulbright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jim Murphy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				F. Sionil José 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Katzman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pierre Trudeau 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Xinran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eduard Shevardnadze