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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
STENDHAL

Ability History Invention Qualification
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.
DAVE GROHL

Believe Change Generation History Important Myself People
Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

History Leopold Congo Second Silence Story War World
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Blood Color History Human Red
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny History Politics
Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Different History Myself Past
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMES

Amount Endless Even History Little Make Take Tradition
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Birth Breeding Contain Event Far Greater History Interesting Men Moment Month Nine Ore Probably Three
Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
ADRIENNE RICH

Act Back Chapter Critical Cultural Direction Entering Eye Eyes Fresh History Looking More Self Survival Test Woman
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
EZRA POUND

History International Politics Yourself
I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
NAS

Channel Discovery Good Grew Had History Love Pbs Say Up
When you fight to honor racists, you show black Tennesseans and all of their allies where you stand, and you continue this cycle of hurt. You can’t change history, but you can change this.
TAYLOR SWIFT

Black Black Lives Matter Change Fight History Racism
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Bible Book Genocidal History Most One
We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE

Communalism Country Destruction Erase Flag Fly History Ourselves
if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
ADRIENNE RICH

Bias Drifting History Male Myth Response Similarly Unanchored Unaware Veering Women
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
TACITUS

Assured Best Friend Brave Difficult Drama Evil History Worst Enemy
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
ROLLO MAY

Affect Authentic Change Freedom History Human Inner Later Sooner
The 20th Century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard.
SHINZO ABE

Century History Human Rights World
The people who have impacted the world didn’t live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.
MYLES MUNROE

History Impact Inspirational Live Motivational People
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
RAND PAUL

Collection Greatness History Lesson War
If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

History Human True Yourself
There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Build History Human Machine Technology
The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.
GEORGES CUVIER

Himself History Leaving Man Name Science Shine Work
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
HENRY KISSINGER

Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn’t know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
BRAD PITT

Boy Family History Identity Young
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
HENRY KISSINGER

History Justice Peace Teaching

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