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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
Time
History
Made
First
Before
Young
Seeing
First Time
Very
Being
Censored
Elders
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
Marty Meehan
Work
History
Celebrate
Grateful
Black
Made
Be Grateful
Month
Black History
Inspired
Continue
Achievements
Should
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Time
History
Whatever
Unprecedented
Given
Share
Development
Glory
Womanhood
Length
Race
Full
Belongs
NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.
Mitch McConnell
History
World
Important
NATO
Military
Alliance
Most
The Most Important
World History
Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.
Phil Anselmo
Music
History
You
Yourself
Three
Lesson
Worst
Musician
Gigantic
True
Genres
Limit
Limitation
Huge
Front
Intentionally
Fan
Us
Should
Explore
Right
Two
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing
History
Change
Live
See
Only
Disappearing
Up
Begin
Where
Moment
Present
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
Richard Hofstadter
History
Political
Our
States
Has-Been
Scapegoat
Throughout
Outsider
Part
Most
Been
Political History
Intellectual
Intellectuals
Ironic
Either
Should
United
Servant
United States
Founded
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein
History
Science
Solemn
About
Could
Write
Never
Highest
Reverse
Authority
Done
Happen
Assembling
The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.
Rosa Luxemburg
History
Man
Action
Proletariat
Shadow
Determining
More
Factor
Retard
Development
Nevertheless
Over
Accelerate
Although
His
Historical
Jump
Very
Than
Stages
Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
Samora Machel
History
Struggle
Generation
Will
Important
Build
Revolution
Society
Our
Our Generation
Record
Mentality
New
Armed
Most
Principal
Understand
How
Contribution
Done
Essential
The Most Important
Turn
Realized
Create
Things
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
Great
History
Man
World
Men
Vain
Great Man
Great Men
Man Lives
The History Of
Lives
Biography
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin
Government
History
Superior
Whatever
Systems
Only
Democratic
Proves
Dictatorships
Authoritarian
Anything
Shortcomings
Forms
Transient
Mankind
As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
Zachary Taylor
Time
History
Liberty
Political
Political Liberty
Own
Sympathize
Our
We Cannot
Civil
Voice
Alliance
Abstain
Blessings
Foreign
Efforts
American
Same
Same Time
Nations
Cannot
Warned
Washington
Extend
Beloved
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin
Time
History
Progress
Impossible
Revolution
Own
Predict
Laws
More
More Or Less
Mysterious
Governed
Less
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
History
Men
Exhausted
Other
Once
Wisely
Alternatives
Behave
Nations
Us
Teaches
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
Adam Savage
Beautiful
History
Most Beautiful
Comedy
Birth
State
Giant
Eastern
Some
New
Most
Erie
Canal
American
York
New York
New York State
Much
Landscape
Stand-Up Comedy
November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
Afrika Bambaataa
History
Together
People
World
Political
November
Young
Politicians
Month
Hop
Systems
Give
Hip
Hip-Hop
Celebration
Political Systems
Done
Where
Young People
Planet
Bring
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.
Amish Tripathi
History
You
School Days
School
Engineering
Medicine
India
Voracious
Days
Reader
Always
Doing
Been
End
Up
Loved
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
Arundhati Roy
History
You
People
Ideology
Say
Out
Wipe
Like
Know
Taliban
Does
Sprung
Fixed
America
Anyway
Mean
Created
Things
Number
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
Bernie Sanders
Time
Democracy
History
Legal
People
Nation
Our
Say
Has-Been
Abolish
Forced
Another
Least
Were
Been
Years
Discrimination
American
The History Of
African
Endure
After
Held
Descent
Founded
Bondage
Slavery
I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump.
Bobby Knight
Government
Time
History
Job
Whatever
Reservation
Believe
President
State
State University
Spent
Would
See
Over
Major
Come
Like
Around
Without
Era
Years
Trump
Lot
Person
Donald
Donald Trump
Any
Going
Just
Ohio
Fiddling
Far
Next
Who
University
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
Charles Krauthammer
War
History
Struggle
Conflict
Values
Other
Constant
Constitute
Primacy
Accounts
Human
Human History
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.
Dallas Willard
God
History
Heart
Glorious
Creation
Community
Aim
Prime
Most
Himself
Very
Loving
Persons
Inhabitant
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
Eduardo Galeano
Sad
History
Joy
Beauty
Duty
Out
Torn
Sport
Voyage
Industry
Became
Got
Very
Blossoms
The History Of
Soccer
Roots
Play
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Edward de Bono
History
Ignorance
Words
Better
Insist
Sense
Perceptions
Freeze
Because
Doing
Continue
Frozen
Then
Should
Use
Moment
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Faith
Great
History
Heart
People
World
Changed
Never
Empires
Principals
Doers
Always
Been
Established
Skepticism
Founded
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