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History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
History
System
Vast
Warning
Early
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
Love
Death
Hope
Dreams
Knowledge
History
Grief
Love Is
Experience
Laughter
Stronger
Myth
Believe
Imagination
Triumphs
More
Only
Potent
Facts
Powerful
Over
Always
Cure
Than
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
History
You
Injustice
Will
Neutrality
Oppressor
Side
Say
Tail
Neutral
Foot
Mouse
Situations
Your
Chosen
Elephant
Appreciate
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S Truman
History
You
World
Nothing
Except
New
Know
Nothing New
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.
Good
Silence
History
People
Bad People
Will
Good People
Clamor
Bad
Record
Period
Greatest
Tragedy
Social
Transition
Appalling
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
Knowledge
History
Culture
People
Past
Tree
Like
Without
Past History
Roots
Origin
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Future
Dreams
History
Better
Past
Like
Than
The History Of
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
Faith
Good
History
Justice
Peace
Harmony
All Nations
Observe
Toward
Cultivate
Nations
Good Faith
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
Silence
History
Justice
Better
Evil
Made
Those
Possible
Has-Been
Indifference
Triumph
Voice
Could
Throughout
Most
Known
Been
Mattered
Inaction
Should
Acted
Who
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
History
Progress
Add
Enough
Our
Those
More
Abundance
Test
Provide
Whether
Little
Much
Who
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love
God
Time
History
Man
World
Will
Fire
Harness
Waves
Someday
Winds
Shall
Tides
Mastering
Discovered
The History Of
After
Energies
Then
Gravity
Second
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
Me
History
Be Kind
Will
Kind
Write
Intend
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
Life
Hope
History
You
Courage
World
Problems
Will
Own
Once
Solve
Able
Take
Contagious
Underestimate
Importance
Comfortable
Because
Comfortable Life
Always
May
Us
Shown
Ever
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
Leadership
History
Change
Courage
Progress
Better
Opportunity
Men
Society
Change Things
Other
Way
Seize
Leaders
Periods
Make
Courageous
Around
Occurs
Still
Where
Skillful
Stands
Things
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
John Thune
Freedom
History
Patriotism
Liberty
Nation
Believe
Marked
Our
Those
Recognized
More
Blood
Than
Flag
Died
Just
Cloth
The History Of
Who
Stands
Ink
Symbol
Universally
Defending
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
History
You
Political
Party
Farm
Programs
Our
Security
Would
Abolish
Laws
Attempt
Insurance
Hear
Political History
Labor
Political Party
Unemployment
Any
Again
Social
Should
Social Security
Eliminate
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
Government
History
Approaching
Darkest
Free
Stage
Rule
Pleases
Citizens
Only
Inversion
Brute
Brute Force
Periods
Force
Permission
Ultimate
May
Human
Where
Anything
Which
While
Human History
Act
Fast
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell
Truth
History
Truth Is
World
Will
Out
Lies
Objective
Objective Truth
Fading
Concept
Pass
Very
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers
Today
Wisdom
God
History
Gift
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Mystery
Call
Why
Present
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
History
About
Soothing
Does
Repeat
Itself
Thing
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Robert Kennedy
Future
Time
History
People
Fear
Past
Every
Every Time
Security
Fact
Never
Invoke
Tracks
Comfortable
Mistrust
Existed
Stop
In Fact
Want
Which
Land
Who
Present
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln
Work
God
History
Charity
Nation
Strive
Wounds
See
Finish
Gives
Firmness
Toward
None
Malice
Up
Us
Let Us
Bind
Right
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.
Woodrow Wilson
Government
Freedom
History
Liberty
Power
Increase
Never
Come
Limitations
Always
Subjects
Governmental Power
The History Of
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.
Anthony Bourdain
Food
History
Feeling
Everything
Those
Tribe
Inseparable
Province
Personal
Nationalist
Region
Grandma
Ethnic
Your
Extension
The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.
George Matthew Adams
Love
History
Healing
World
Medicine
Sick
Baby
Birth
Significant
Thousand
Thousand Years
Pouring
Almost
Most
Because
Years
Hearts
Which
Transformed
Manner
Meant
Stands
Event
Jesus
Two
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
God
History
Man
Together
Made
Economics
Those
Neighbors
Asunder
Allies
Joined
Put
Partners
Geography
Friends
Us
Whom
Necessity
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