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• As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Offering, Advice

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• The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

  Karl Marx

  Firsts, Facts, Individual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.42, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• '2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Sea, Forever

  "Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90" by Ravi Nessman in the "Associated Press", March 18, 2008.

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• For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.

  Ben Stein

  Struggle, Successful, Hands

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Phases, Aspiration, Democratic

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• [M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

  Charles Kimball

  War, Names, People

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• Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Powerful, Sacrifice

  Pope John Paul II, Greg Burke (1999). “An Invitation to Joy”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.

  John G. Lake

  Jesus, Men, Christ On The Cross

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• God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Order, Gods Will, Casts

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• Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ignorance, Discovery, Obstacles

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• An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. -GQ 71

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Love, Book, Reading

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• Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

  Philip Wylie

  Wise, Cheer, Men

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• Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

  George William Curtis

  Three, Conquer, Hundred

  "The Call of Freedom". "Orations and Addresses" by George William Curtis, www.bartleby.com. 1894.

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• Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

  Abdul Kalam

  Pages, Life Is, Position

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• We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Years, Europe

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Curiosity, Care

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• There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

  R. C. Sproul

  Garden, Eden, Humans

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.149, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Light, Events

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• In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

  George J. Mitchell

  Support, Patriotism, Criticism

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• It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

  Margaret Beckett

  Facts, Natural, Century

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• Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Unfinished Business, People

  "The New 'Comeback' Clinton: From Rival to U.S. Cabinet". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, Vogue Magazine, abcnews.go.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

  Erich Fromm

  Obedience, Unlikely, Humans

  "Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem". "On Disobedience and Other Essays" by Erich Fromm, 1981.

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• All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Compromise, Bigs, Humans

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• Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

  Joseph Conrad

  History, Fiction, Humans

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

  Erich Fromm

  Civilization, Doubt, May

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