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“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.”

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Author:Barry Goldwater

“British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.”

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Author:W. C. Sellar

“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.”

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Book:Among women

Source: Among women

“The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.”

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Author:Herbert Butterfield

“Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.”

“You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.”

“In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.”

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Author:Eric Holder

“History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.”

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Book:Collected Poems: 1919-1962

Source: Collected Poems: 1919-1962

“I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.”

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Book:Civilization

Source: Civilization

“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”

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Author:George Orwell

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

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Book:An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard

Source: An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

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Author:James Joyce

“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”

“History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”

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Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.”

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Book:History, Frontier, and Section: Three Essays

Source: History, Frontier, and Section: Three Essays

“We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.”

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Book:Faith of Our Fathers

Source: Faith of Our Fathers

“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.”

“Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."”

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Author:Jonathan Frakes