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3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

3 December 2020 Susan Sontag

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

3 December 2020 Danica Patrick

I think there’s a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson

In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

3 December 2020 Denis Leary

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how’s that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

3 December 2020 Henry James

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

3 December 2020 Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

3 December 2020 Amar Bose

We learned the value of research in World War II.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman

I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

3 December 2020 John Moody

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

3 December 2020 Irving R. Kaufman

The Supreme Court’s only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

3 December 2020 John Cleese

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

3 December 2020 Hassan Nasrallah

In man – in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they’re occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people’s will is what achieves victory.

3 December 2020 Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman

You’re going to relegate my history to a month.

3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

3 December 2020 Barbara Tuchman

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you’re not aware of that when you’re a child, the whole tradition is lost.

3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

3 December 2020 Jacques Chirac

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

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