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		We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Walton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel H. Wilson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ella Wheeler Wilcox
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elon Musk
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barbara Mikulski
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Thomas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I have always dealt with economic forces, rather than philosophic forces, but you can't split history into neat little non-overlapping divisions. For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Isaac Asimov
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Natasha Trethewey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edward Bellamy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We really don't discover fully what 'Westworld' is for this first season, until we get there. The first 10 episodes are the journey. The colors become brighter, the vistas become clearer, and the history is more understood with each step we take along the way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeffrey Wright
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Martin Gardner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Auberon Waugh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeffrey Eugenides
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anderson Cooper
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because of our bilingual history, we'll always be speaking a special kind of English and Spanish. What we do have to do is fight for the right to use those two languages in the way that it serves us. Nuevo-mexicanos have done it very well for hundreds of years, inventing words where they don't have them. I think the future of our language is where we claim our bilingualism for its utility.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ana Castillo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Women today are the biggest pigs today in history. They are just the dirtiest, nastiest slobs. I don't know how old your chick is, but the truth of the matter is they've become the aggressors. You know? They're upset if you're not balls deep in them by half way through the first date! They think you don't like them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Dice Clay
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'I Can Do That' has been the most challenging show of my life, and the result has been overwhelming. It is good to know I will be in the history as the first winner of the season of the show.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rithvik Dhanjani
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Madeleine M. Kunin