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		The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency.
	
	  Jerome Powell Jerome Powell
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		When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.
	
	  John Rhys-Davies John Rhys-Davies
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		China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world. Her contribution to the civilization of mankind is imperishable. She has been a keen lover of peace; she has had a deep respect for international justice.
	
	  Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek
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		In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
	
	  Banana Yoshimoto Banana Yoshimoto
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		Once your network has lost confidence in you, you're headed for the dustbin of history.
	
	  Andre Braugher Andre Braugher
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		When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
	
	  Dolores Huerta Dolores Huerta
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		I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
	
	  Rick James Rick James
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		Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
	
	  Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis
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		J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.
	
	  Brian Wilson Brian Wilson
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		They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.
	
	  Derrick Bostrom
			
			
				Meat Puppets Derrick Bostrom
			
			
				Meat Puppets
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		The only genre of movie that I could see making that doesn't have anything magical or otherworldly about it would be a war film. I'm very interested in history, and a war film could be something that would lure me in.
	
	  Neill Blomkamp Neill Blomkamp
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		In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology, born of neopaganism, gave rise to the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jews. The result has passed into history as the Shoah.
	
	  Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI
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		The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.
	
	  Yanar Mohammed Yanar Mohammed
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		I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.
	
	  John Irving John Irving
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		Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.
	
	  Barack Obama Barack Obama
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		You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
	
	  Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates