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Top 20 Great Quotes About History by Kalatium(m): 5:20pm On Nov 22, 2016
#1 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
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#2 A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
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#3 I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
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#4 You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama
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#5 Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
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#6 If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu
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#7 Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
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#8 I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
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#9 The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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#10 We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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#11 History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
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#12 History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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#13 Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy
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#14 The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry
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#15 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
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#16 History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
Haile Selassie
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#17 Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. Kennedy
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#18 Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher Hitchens
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#19 Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
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#20 I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler
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Re: Top 20 Great Quotes About History by Nobody: 5:31pm On Nov 22, 2016
Nice Quotes
Re: Top 20 Great Quotes About History by Kalatium(m): 6:38pm On Nov 22, 2016
walcruise:
Nice Quotes
Thanks

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