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• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

  Robert Frost

  Power, Icy, World

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• It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

  Thomas Friedman

  Play, People, World

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• Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

  Patrick Marber

  Thank God, Bangs, World

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• The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Israel, Views, Heaven

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

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• Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Presidential, Campaigns

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 04, 2012.

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• The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Thinking, World

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• Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

  Steve King

  Father, Government, Democracy

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  From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  Karl Marx

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Political

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

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• Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Unique, Men, Doe

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• No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Israel, People

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• Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

  William Hague

  World, Opponents, Conflict

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• I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

  Keith O'Brien

  Jesus, Simple, Trying

  "Catholic cardinal calls on Christians to wear their crosses every day" by Damien Pearse, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

  John F. Kennedy

  Historical, Experience, Generations

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Attitude, Yesterday, World

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• We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

  Dan Rather

  Country, America, People

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• Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Trying, World

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.52, Penguin

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• Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.

  William Soutar

  World, Creatures, Has Beens

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• The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

  Milton R. Hunter

  Alcohol, Devil, Tools

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• All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Pursuit Of Happiness, America, World

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• As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the world from a fresh perspective and enables readers to see it in a new light. That he has managed to do so in a single conceptual work is nothing short of astounding.

  Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

  Ocean, Light, Sea

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• Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

  Walter Benjamin

  Race, Different, World

  "Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1938–1940". Book edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, 1996.

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• It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

  Walter Mosley

  Talking, Water, Pirate

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.115, Penguin

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• White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, White Man, America

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• Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Romance, Risk

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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