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• Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Race, Self, People

  "The American Cause". Address delivered at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, November 20, 1940.

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• What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Europe, Important

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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• Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

  David Mamet

  Art, Powerful, World

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.35, Vintage

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• Ladies and gentlemen, the economic disaster, the tailspin, the destruction of the greatest economic engine in the history of the world, these policies of Barack Obama's, which have led us to this point, are precisely why I fearlessly said and still say, I hope he fails.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gentleman, World, Failing

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• There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

  Karl Marx

  People, World, Looks

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• I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

  Celine Buckens

  War, Book, Two

  "Celine Buckens’ Horse Sense". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

  Kate Elliott

  Empowerment, Promise, World

  Kate Elliott (2013). “Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book Three”, p.432, Hachette UK

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• If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.

  Tim Minchin

  Spiritual, Believe, Race

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• History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, History, Looks

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John W. Gardner, December, 1968.

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• The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

  Herbert Hoover

  History, Purpose, World

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• No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

  Richard Bach

  World, Limits, Problem

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• The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

  Francois Fenelon

  Men, Doe, World

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• There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Wrath, Tears, Hot

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

  Walt Whitman

  Umpires, Justice, Judging

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.385, NYU Press

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• The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Eye, Anxiety, Want

  'Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835' 18 May

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• In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

  Lawrence Summers

  Car, Liberty, World

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• It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

  Gertrude Stein

  History, Doe, Soothing

  "Wars I Have Seen". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1945.

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• The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Justice, Literature, World

  "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper, 1945.

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• Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

  Stacy Schiff

  Rome, Play, Ambitious

  "Interview with Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra'". Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2010.

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• America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, America, Honor

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", Live Coverage of Republican Presidential Contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, www.cnn.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Moon, Night

  "Election Guide: Romney Rhetoric". Interview with Jason Williams, www.cityweekly.net. October 31, 2012.

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• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Inspirational, Success, New Year

  Interview with Gwen Marder, www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2004.

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• There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

  Karl Popper

  Political, World, Kind

  The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) vol. 2, ch. 25

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• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Patriotic, Sublime

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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