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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Harold Washington
Government
Democracy
History
Progress
Made
Active
Intervention
Our
Possible
Federal
Throughout
Federal Government
Toward
Were
American
American History
Gains
Social
Much
Many
America has always imported history.
Helmut Jahn
History
Always
Imported
America
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
Today
History
Worth
Live
Only
Make
Tradition
Tinker
Want
Present
Dam
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse
Faith
History
Chaos
Retaining
Study
Study History
Nevertheless
Order
Meaning
Means
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire Belloc
Life
History
Language
Nationalism
Every
Religious
More
Major
Question
Effect
Than
Common
Common Language
Molding
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac
Art
Religion
History
Humanity
Passion
Would
Would-Be
Without
Novels
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Future
Time
History
Generation
Power
First
Past
Destroy
First Time
End
The History Of
Literally
Mankind
Present
Bring
As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.
Hubert de Givenchy
Strength
History
Gifted
More
Student
Arithmetic
Like
Geography
Were
Things
Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.
Huston Smith
Future
Time
Best
History
Better
Ought
Our
Spend
Our Time
Recognize
Out
Depends
Orders
Whether
Turn
Planet
Marching
Things
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
Ilka Chase
History
Weather
Mention
Traitors
Famous
Might
Among
Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.
Izabel Goulart
Life
Good
Strength
Me
History
Sports
School
Focus
My Life
Big
Healthy
Other
Gave
Everything
Running
Stay
More
Gymnastics
Volleyball
Part
Concentration
Schools
Always
Motivation
Been
Lot
Big Part
Did
Different
Soccer
Played
Competing
Basketball
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
Jacque Fresco
Great
History
Man
Science
Men
Believe
Other
Great Man
Great Men
Done
Just
Shoulders
Theory
Standing
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
Jacques Barzun
History
Pessimist
Think
Student
Almost
Cheerful
Always
Inevitably
Been
Any
I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.
James Comey
History
Believe
Significant
Most
Human
Holocaust
Human History
Event
There's a bunch of cities I'm not crazy about, but I love Chicago. I love the musical history - the mid-'90s indie rock scene, Chicago house music. It's a great town.
James Ransone
Love
Music
Great
Crazy
History
Musical
Cities
Indie
About
Scene
Town
House
Rock
Chicago
Bunch
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
Jared Diamond
Me
History
People
Differences
Seems
Between
Environments
Namely
Attributable
Continental
Continents
Human
Different
Pattern
Themselves
Among
Societies
Biological
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
Jean Piaget
Knowledge
History
Past
Changed
Changing
State
Rapidly
More
Current
Current State
Just
In The Past
Moment
Many
Ever
Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized.
Jidenna
Birthday
History
Black
Month
Black History
Course
Jesus
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
Joe Baca
War
Future
History
World
Nation
Changing
Our
Winning
Course
Caused
Commit
Harbor
Wholeheartedly
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
World War
World War II
With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.
John Agyekum Kufuor
God
History
Guidance
Chapter
Our
Unpleasant
See
Shall
Soon
Most
End
Help
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
John Dalberg-Acton
History
You
Remember
Men
Power
Few
Control
Too
Mentality
Concentration
Frequently
Proven
Get
Hands
Where
Gangsters
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.
John Henrik Clarke
Me
History
Learning
First
Become
Own
Worried
Kind
Spirit
About
Blacks
Clay
Feel
Town
Southern
Subscribed
Being
Different
Wanted
Land
Different Kind
Farmer
Teaching
Daddy
Alabama
Bones
The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.
John Madden
Best
History
You
Getting Older
Live
Older
About
More
Longer
Know
Knowing
Sport
Been
Getting
Where
Thing
Things
Started
The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.
John Piper
History
Feeling
Thinking
Philosophy
Way
Idea
Gospel
Theory
Event
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp
Great
History
Culture
People
Amazing
Important
Live
France
Though
About
Disaster
Know
Most
Most Important Thing
How
Important Thing
America
American
American Culture
Afraid
Forgotten
Europe
Whole
Thing
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine. For most of its history, the practice was not separated from other aspects of human activity.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
History
Mind
Practice
Medicine
Other
Back
Sides
Way
Most
Same
Goes
Human
Human Activity
Different
Body
Separated
Aspects
Notion
Different Sides
Activity
Origins
Actually
Coin
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