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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
History can never be covered up.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
- Geography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before you begin a paranormal investigation, the most important criteria you need to gather is the back history of the location.
- Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
- Distances
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the 'Strong Island' team would be the cap to an incredible journey. But it would also mean that my brother will not disappear from history.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin, then I'm so excited about that.
- Australia
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- Nov 07, 2020
My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
- Great Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
- Columbus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics.
- Method
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
- Edwardian
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- Nov 07, 2020
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
- Great Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
- High Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
- Extraordinary Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the best parts of America's history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear - sit on a foundation of public safety.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.
- Nov 07, 2020
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationwide injunctions undermine the democratic process, depart from history and tradition, violate constitutional principles, and impede sound judicial administration, all at the cost of public confidence in our institutions and particularly in our courts as apolitical decision-makers dispassionately applying objective law.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision of the Founders. It has brought to our Republic a dynamism and effectiveness that other democracies have lacked.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you talk in terms of a rivalry game, it's always important for our guys to understand the history of the rivalry and the history of the game.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time in American history, it was not only legal to relinquish a baby; in Nebraska, it was okay to abandon any child of any age for any reason at any time - with the full protection of the law.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think of black television and history, I always use 'The Cosby Show' as the bar.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020