Rachel Skarsten Quotes
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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I want to go down in history.
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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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Thought makes reality.
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The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
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It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any high degree; only about as much as is used in the lower kinds of poetry.
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Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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God put a million, million doors in the world for His love to walk through. One of those doors is you.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
