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3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

3 December 2020 Grover Cleveland

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

3 December 2020 Anita Desai

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

3 December 2020 Kim Novak

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It’s like you’re touching the essence, the very substance of life.

3 December 2020 Lawrence Durrell

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

3 December 2020 George H. W. Bush

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

3 December 2020 Arthur Smith

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that’s about it.

3 December 2020 Ron Chernow

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

3 December 2020 Zhu Rongji

History can never be covered up.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

3 December 2020 Pat Robertson

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

3 December 2020 Paul Harris

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

3 December 2020 B. C. Forbes

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Sky

The ’80s were fabulous. The ’90s sucked, and the ’70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There’s something that’s just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and ‘I’m a loner.’

3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

3 December 2020 Lech Walesa

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

3 December 2020 Walter Lang

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

3 December 2020 Prince Charles

Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Granholm

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.

3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

3 December 2020 Jeff Bezos

Strip malls are history.

3 December 2020 Sidney Poitier

History passes the final judgment.

3 December 2020 Tim Vine

I was reading a book… ‘the history of glue’ – I couldn’t put it down.

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