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Letter "H" » History
«I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach»
«More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations»
Author: John Barth
| About:
History
| Keywords:
bills, handshake, handshakes, proclamations, secret history
«My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government»
«More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
History
| Keywords:
Human history, only if, The United Nations, United Nations
«Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.»
«Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.»
«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.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Government,
History,
Liberty,
Power
| Keywords:
governmental, History of, increase, liberty, limitations, subjects, The History, The History of
«I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.»
«Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
decades, History of the, replacing, sounded, The Social, The Western, Western
«More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
History,
Time,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
correctly, crossroad, crossroads, despair, extinction, faces, hopelessness, in history, leads, mankind, pray, total, totals, utter
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