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• Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Drama, Writing, Civilization

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• It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together in to a single family.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Attitude, Race, Self

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• Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

  Vernor Vinge

  Technology, Understanding, World

  Vernor Vinge (2002). “The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge”, p.44, Macmillan

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• The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Europe, Growth

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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• After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Successful, America, Political

  "Condoleezza Rice Reaffirmed 'American Exceptionalism' During Her Republican Convention Speech Last Night" by Brenda Krueger Huffman, www.businessinsider.com. January 22, 2013.

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• Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

  Brian Tracy

  Knowing, Requirements, Exciting

  Brian TRACY (2009). “Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life”, p.3, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

  Howard Zinn

  Hope, Kindness, Future

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• We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

  Vernor Vinge

  Space, Understanding, Black

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• For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

  Thomas Sowell

  Work, Rights, Historical

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.74, Basic Books

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• Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

  Carl Sagan

  Impact, President, Maxwell

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• The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

  Stephen Covey

  Profound, Challenges, World

  "The (R)evolution of 'What and Why' Into 'Who'” by Val Jon Farris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Damage Is Done, Earth, Century

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• [I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

  Kanye West

  Want, Apparel, Company

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• When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to violence to the point where they're in stadiums still to this day watching people getting stoned to death.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Looks, Violence

  "Rosario Dawson Talks TRANCE, Working with Danny Boyle, Playing a Female at the Center of a Male Dominated Story & a Nude Scene with James McAvoy". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 30, 2013.

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• The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Impact, Atmosphere

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• There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We have a perception of ourselves and in order for that to be a true perception we have to believe in a soul within us.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Believe, Order, Soul

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  Salman Rushdie

  History, Purity, Havoc

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash in them. False rumors are especially troublesome; they impose real damage on individuals and institutions, and they often resist correction. They can threaten careers, policies, public officials, and sometimes even democracy itself.

  Cass Sunstein

  Real, Careers, Democracy

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• I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

  Tom Hanks

  Motivation, Reflection, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Forever, Messages, Ends

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.207, Penguin

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• It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history. ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs. ... let me make something clear.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Giving Up, May, Sacred

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• Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.

  Terence McKenna

  Hands, Organization, Mind

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• World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

  Ken Follett

  War, Drama, Years

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• This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, Army

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• Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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