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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong
Alone
History
People
World
Force
Making
Motive
World History
World history is a court of judgment.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History
World
Judgment
Court
World History
NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.
Mitch McConnell
History
World
Important
NATO
Military
Alliance
Most
The Most Important
World History
Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Fashion
History
World
Other
One-Sided
About
Study
Learn
Geography
Very
Than
American
American History
World History
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer
Truth
Spiritual
History
World
Strong
Weak
Something
Rests
Firm
Happens
Creates
Stands
World History
Suffers
No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about the decisions that Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower made during the most dangerous decades in American and world history. But we know now that they did what was right, and we honor them for it.
Donna Brazile
History
People
World
Dangerous
Honor
Made
Harry
Presidents
Franklin
About
No-One
Remembers
Day-To-Day
Know
Most
How
Truman
Decades
American
Did
Dwight
Eisenhower
Decisions
Them
Roosevelt
American People
Now
World History
Right
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Michel Houellebecq
History
Change
People
World
Important
Active
Change The World
Ideas
Napoleon
Than
Less
World History
Profoundly
Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.
Audrey Meadows
Good
History
Woman
World
Made
Big
Good Friends
Meeting
Later
Mink
Touch
Him
Became
Up
Friends
Any
Movie
Moments
Initial
World History
Her
Right
To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
Butch Trucks
Life
Music
History
Experience
World
Car
College
Drive
To Be Honest
Philosophy
Kind
College Experience
Catch
Missed
Like
Around
Been
Lectures
Up
Listen
Literature
Much
Whole
World History
Things
Honest
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.
Celine Buckens
Love
War
Me
History
Book
World
Sections
About
Knew
Devoured
Lot
Very
Stories
After
Interest
Really
World History
Actually
Two
World War
World War I
World War II
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
Fred Ward
History
World
Listening
Men
Other
About
Part
Major
Talk
Major Part
Trying
Just
After
Just One
Really
Each
World History
Slaughter
World history is tragic.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
History
World
Tragic
World History
World history is shaped both positively and negatively by people who judge.
Gad Saad
History
People
Judge
World
Negatively
Positively
Both
Shaped
Who
World History
I taught world history. I understand there was an Ice Age... seasons come and seasons go. I do not believe the world's going to end because of the 2 percent man-made greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. And even if it were, we're not going to stop it.
John Shimkus
History
Age
World
Believe
Atmosphere
Percent
Emissions
Come
Because
Understand
Go
Were
End
Man-Made
Greenhouse
Going
Stop
Taught
Ice
Ice Age
Even
Seasons
World History
Gas
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
Kara Lindsay
Me
History
Science
World
Made
Hatred
Sense
Every
Bite
Characters
Adult
Study
Come
Math
Years
Math And Science
Done
Just
Loved
Which
Required
Show
Lived
Professionally
World History
Butt
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
Khaled Hosseini
History
Suffering
Women
World
Few
Group
Think
Other
Has-Been
Been
Very
Afghan
Groups
World History
Recent
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.
Martha Beck
Life
Time
Food
History
Culture
World
Energy
Biology
Else
Tools
Everything
Everything Else
High
Scarcity
Fabricated
Pretty
Cost
Both
Vast
Vast Majority
Shaped
Had
Majority
Shelter
Very
Human
Clothing
Much
Human Life
World History
Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.
Michelle Alexander
Education
History
Rights
Economic Development
Training
World
Police
Job
Nation
Human Rights
Our
Stripped
System
Job Training
Has-Been
Unprecedented
Civil
Born
Economic
Investing
Development
Budgets
Arrested
Prisons
Been
Human
While
Billions
World History
Basic
Millions
Treatment
Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.
Mike Quigley
History
Challenges
World
Despite
Most
Globalization
Led
Times
Productive
Peaceful
World History
Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.
Nipsey Hussle
Time
History
You
World
Country
Collapsed
About
Know
Cryptocurrency
Currency
Any
Just
Fiat
World History
A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators.
Rocky Carroll
Great
History
You
World
Free
Society
Books
Rule
Kings
Absolute
Imperialism
Look
Democratic
Democratic Societies
Democratic Society
Queens
Norm
History Books
Dictators
Monarchs
Based
World History
Societies
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.
Stacy Schiff
Today
History
You
Woman
Women
World
Problems
Power
Universe
Alexandria
Incredibly
Some
Lifetime
Come
Cleopatra
Well
Still
Oddly
Accomplished
Up
Ambitious
Role
Same
Pivotal
Center
Rome
Against
Who
World History
Her
Here
Plays
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