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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
History
Courage
Pain
Despite
Faced
Wrenching
Cannot
Again
Lived
Need
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
History
Generation
Light
Honor
Will
Congress
Down
This Administration
Latest
Trial
We Cannot
Ourselves
Significance
Administration
Citizens
Insignificance
Spite
Through
Remembered
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Another
Pass
Escape
Personal
Dishonor
Cannot
Which
Spare
Fiery
Us
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
Lyndon B. Johnson
Morning
History
Water
President
Top
One Morning
Would
Potomac
River
Headline
Read
Walked
Afternoon
Across
Swim
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
Me
History
You
Dust
Down
Bitter
Rise
Dirt
Write
Like
Still
Lines
Very
May
Your
Twisted
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler
Thankful
History
Peace
Key
Safety
Car
Mind
Important
Community
Peace Of Mind
Lock
Delete
Invented
Computers
Most
House
Box
Am
Private
The Most Important
Order
Deposit
Boat
Bike
Your
Sanity
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Future
History
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Wait
Down
Run
Neither
Lies
Over
Him
Tracks
Nor
Train
Brave
Brave Man
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
Haile Selassie
Strength
History
Overcome
Goals
Path
Differences
Unity
Our
Strive
Brotherhood
True
Combined
Quest
Submerge
Common
African
Us
Teaches
The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.
Robert Kennedy
Life
History
Struggle
People
Better
Independence
Revolution
Our
Nurtured
Way
States
Those
Born
Seek
Throughout
Better Way
Supported
American
American People
Who
United
United States
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis
History
You
World
Will
Thought
Become
Think
Other
Those
Find
Since
Most
Read
Ineffective
Were
Did
Precisely
Next
Who
Largely
Present
Present World
Christians
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
Michael N. Castle
Character
History
Patriotism
Heroes
Honor
Free
Long
Country
Nation
Our
Battles
Memorial Day
Threats
Long History
Terror
Fallen
Represent
Who
Many
Fought
Keep
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy
Work
History
Change
Generation
Events
Will
Few
Bend
This Generation
Those
Total
Small
Written
Greatness
Itself
The History Of
Us
Each
Acts
Portion
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
History
Philosophy
America
Created
Europe
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
Maya Angelou
History
Book
Wonderful
Black
One Book
Black History
American
Just
Taught
Native
Native American
American History
Jewish
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom
History
Care
Long
Weak
Entrust
Does
Timid
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
Hope
Good
Freedom
History
You
Generation
Will
Posterity
Cost
Never
Know
Make
How
How Much
Much
Use
Your
Your Freedom
Present
Preserve
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
Great
History
Progress
Ugly
Impossible
Sex
Changes
Exactly
Fair
Knows
Without
Feminine
Upheaval
Anyone
Anything
Social
Social Changes
Measured
Who
Social Progress
Included
Position
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sad
Life
History
Man
Suffering
Enemies
Enough
Secret
Our
Find
Could
Hostility
Disarm
Sorrow
Read
Should
Each
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
History
Man
Learning
Experience
History Repeats Itself
Must
Always
How
Repeats
Itself
Unexpected
Happens
Incapable
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith
History
Spirits
Determined
Small
Fired
Mission
Alter
Course
Body
History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill
History
Written
Victors
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston Churchill
History
Secrets
Lies
Study
Study History
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
Teacher
History
Lose
Those
Record
Inspiration
Accomplished
Which
Teaching
Who
Biography
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela
Beautiful
History
Experience
Oppression
Will
Shall
Never
Another
Again
Land
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
C. S. Lewis
Good
History
People
Good Things
Bad People
Bad Things
Bad
Somehow
Something
Wrong
Doing
Trying
Goes
Quite
Just
Story
Much
Things
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Carter G. Woodson
History
World
Thought
Negligible
Danger
Worthwhile
Factor
Becomes
Tradition
Being
Race
Stands
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston Churchill
History
Simple
Confusion
Action
Thinking
Strikes
Would
Would-Be
Constitute
Emergency
Features
Counsel
Clear
Until
Self-Preservation
Effective
Repetition
Foresight
Endless
Lack
Want
Which
Gong
Jarring
Act
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