Beeban Kidron Quotes
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
Yvette Clarke
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Frances Burney
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
Nancy Reagan
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
Zaha Hadid
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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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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Harry Browne
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
Imre Lakatos
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I want to go down in history.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
Adam Cohen
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Gail Collins
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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.
Nancy Pelosi
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
Mahmoud Darwish
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My inspiration is love and history.
Waris Ahluwalia
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
Radhanath Swami
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You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
Debbie Reynolds
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There were a couple of things I lost sleep over with the play 'Frost/Nixon,' so I went back and addressed them a bit more in the film.
Peter Morgan
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I really believed music was going to be a big part of my future, and that's why I took a truck driving job, so I could maintain my singing job at night. I put about 30 hours a week just for singing, going between two churches. And in order to afford that, I had to take a full time job so I could do my passion.
Danny Gokey
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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.
Jason Gray
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If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
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