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Sachin Tendulkar

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

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Henry Miller

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

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John Burroughs

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

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John Maynard Keynes

Ideas shape the course of history.

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Thomas Huxley

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

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Carlos Santana

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

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Virginia Woolf

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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Friedrich August von Hayek

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

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Jacques Yves Cousteau

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

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Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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Quentin Tarantino

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

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Richard M. Nixon

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

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Ansel Adams

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

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Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

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Aleister Crowley

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

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Paul Ryan

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

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George W. Bush

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

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William Hazlitt

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

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Eric Hoffer

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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Robert Mugabe

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

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Elie Wiesel

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

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Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

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Franklin P. Adams

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

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Anita Baker

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

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Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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Will Durant

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

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George W. Bush

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

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Christopher Hitchens

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.

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Jimmy Carter

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

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David Herbert Lawrence

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

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Simone Weil

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

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Steven Spielberg

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

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Richard M. Nixon

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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Mason Cooley

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

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Robert Hall

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

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Walter Scott

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

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Richard M. Nixon

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

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George W. Bush

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

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Vladimir Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

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Hermann Hesse

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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Ted Nugent

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

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James Hillman

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

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Eddie Izzard

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

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Mao Zedong

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

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Otto von Bismarck

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

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Erica Jong

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

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George W. Bush

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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Alfred A. Montapert

The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

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Vladimir Lenin

Sometimes - history needs a push.

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