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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alone
History
Man
Soul
Christ
Beauty
Harmony
Saw
Severe
Drawn
Eye
Prophets
Mystery
Open
Had
He
True
His
Greatness
Being
Estimated
Race
Being There
Lived
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Belonged
We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
Quavo
Broken
History
You
History Repeats Itself
Nothing
Trends
Follow
See
Only
Records
Never
Feel
New
Footsteps
Like
Been
Repeats
Itself
Brand
Brand New
Going
Just
Us
Shown
Here
Set
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis
History
World
Worth
Impossible
Before
Had
Most
Doing
Were
Been
Done
Things
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
James K. Polk
History
Peace
World
Country
Contentment
Our
Plenty
Moral
Borders
Throughout
Sublime
Reign
Spectacle
Beloved
Beloved Country
Presents
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Halsey
History
Men
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Circumstances
Circumstances
Forced
Deal
Just
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Hugo Black
History
Post
Other
Fathers
Saw
Purpose
Clearly
New
Courageous
Condemnation
Times
York
Reporting
New York
New York Times
Newspapers
Far
Should
View
Washington
Washington Post
Deserving
Founding
Founding Fathers
Serving
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer
History
Second-Hand
Other
Properly
Only
Seldom
Also
Metal
However
Hand
Inferior
Hands
Newspapers
Works
Second
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.
August Wilson
History
You
Book
Our
About
Blacks
Shame
Know
How
Stigma
America
Forget
Blues
Want
Who
Slavery
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
Bryant H. McGill
News
History
Legal
Writing
Control
System
Records
Through
Real
Contracts
Legal System
Reporting
Committed
Information
Social
Manipulation
Violence
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
Life
Death
Me
History
Learning
World
Gave
Others
Out
Would
Would-Be
About
Delighted
Learn
How
Permitted
Were
Continue
Discover
After
Personally
Turns
Chance
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda
Knowledge
History
Pride
Challenge
Own
Believe
Our
Must
Directly
Magnificent
Take
Individuals
Maintain
Link
Human
Transforming
Decisions
Human History
Choices
Actions
Based
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
Friedrich Engels
History
Class
Has-Been
Classes
Various
Struggles
Development
Between
Been
Dominated
Stages
Social
Social Development
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.
Gene Simmons
Truth
History
Truth Is
Mother
Met
Yesterday
Books
Phrase
Wiped
Never
Were
Up
History Books
Germany
Just
Happened
Grandfathers
Holocaust
Grandmothers
Chambers
Gas
Gas Chambers
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau
History
Nation
Gone
Interval
Degeneration
Miraculously
Only
Directly
Civilization
Without
America
Which
Barbarism
Usual
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Henry Louis Gates
Truth
History
You
Truth Is
Black
Complex
Black History
About
More
Could
Make
Make Up
Up
Than
Anything
Much
Thing
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
Henry Waxman
Veterans Day
History
Respect
Veterans
Sanctity
Pay
Military
Our
Those
Monuments
Importance
Institutions
Who
Fought
Utmost
Utmost Importance
Preserve
I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.
Issa Rae
Me
History
Thought
Black
Parents
Skin
Else
Neither
Color
Never
Had
Put
Knew
Proud
Accompanied
End
Did
Taught
Anybody
Anybody Else
Story
Race
Much
Really
Skin Color
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James Baldwin
Beautiful
History
About
More
Various
Longer
Terrible
Said
Than
American
Anyone
Anything
American History
Ever
Larger
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis
History
Events
Rule
Neither
Majority
Nor
Did
Current
Current Events
Show
Ever
If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
Jim Mattis
History
You
Yourself
People
Past
Enough
Give
Similar
Learn
Read
Does
Dealt
How
Answers
Refine
Questions
Situations
In The Past
Patterns
Ask
Successfully
Help
Biography
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.
John Henrik Clarke
Love
History
Memories
People
Pride
Black
Own
States
Take
Clear
Come
Talents
Importance
Well
Make
How
Role
Did
Want
Race
Ethnic
Use
Teaches
United
United States
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx
History
Fight
Men
Nothing
Living
Possess
Immense
Battles
Does
Real
Riches
Who
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
Katharine Lee Bates
Death
History
Heroes
Torture
Give
Martyrs
Divine
Gladly
Idea
Surely
Truest
Up
Irrespective
Which
Bodies
Special
Phase
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
Lech Walesa
History
Will
Crushed
Out
Fingers
He
Puts
His
Hand
Wheel
Stop
Who
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig von Mises
History
State
Mischief
Main
Main Source
Disaster
Course
Been
Source
Often
History is not hatred.
Malcolm X
History
Hatred
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