Norman Borlaug Quotes
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
Norman Borlaug
Quotes to Explore
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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
Edmund Morgan
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
Daniel Craig
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
Walter Jon Williams
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I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.
Ed O'Neill
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Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.
E. O. Wilson
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The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Arundhati Roy
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When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.
David Harewood
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Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.
Charlie Sykes
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We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.
Dalai Lama
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
Ida Lupino
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I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
Lupita Nyong'o
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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.
Barack Obama
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To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.
David Malet Armstrong
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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
Norman Borlaug
