H. G. Wells Quotes
When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.
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My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.
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I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.
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The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.
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When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
