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Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings. -- Sarah Palin
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. -- Umberto Eco
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements. -- Cory Booker
We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism. -- Justin Sane
I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful. -- Brie Larson
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. -- Tadao Ando
Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees. -- Jennifer Granholm
I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people. -- Nas
It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way. -- Danny Garcia
I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it. -- Joan Cusack
Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope... -- Pope Benedict XVI
Well, let's see. There's-of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others. But, um -- Sarah Palin
That great dust-heap called 'history'. -- Augustine Birrell
History is a great dust heap. -- Thomas Carlyle
There lived great souls in history. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
History is the great propagator of doubt. -- A. J. P. Taylor
All human history moves towards one great goal -- James Joyce
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. -- Leigh Hunt
No great leader in history fought to prevent change. -- John C. Maxwell
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. -- V. S. Naipaul
History provides a great example but a terrible excuse. -- Liz Curtis Higgs
History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers. -- George Otis
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable. -- Balthazar Getty
The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry, -- Michael Douglas
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. -- Allen Klein
Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history. -- Janet Wallach
The great thing about history is that it is adaptable. -- Peter Ustinov
There lived great souls in the history of the world. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. -- Oscar Wilde
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. -- Augustine Birrell
It's great to be a part of the greatest jackoff in history. -- Tom Wolfe
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James
I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling. -- Persis Khambatta
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. -- Virginia Woolf
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. -- Richard M. Nixon
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone. -- Marion Woodman
Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today. -- David Miliband
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history. -- Lord Acton
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. -- Peggy Noonan
Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history. -- Rick Riordan
Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history. -- Marianne Vos
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. -- Antonia Fraser
I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. -- Eli Broad
If you have a great product but no one knows about it, it's history. -- Tony Fernandes
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? -- Lord Byron
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. -- Karl Jaspers
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. -- Theodore Roosevelt
All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts. -- Bryant McGill
A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. -- Mike Gordon
Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history. -- Sherrod Brown
I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. -- Henry Rollins
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression, -- Ben Bernanke
History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event. -- Max Lucado
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. -- Thomas Friedman
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it? -- Dick Cavett
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. -- Jeremy Grantham
All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision." -- Kelly Millar
All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision. -- Kelly Miller
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. -- Walter Savage Landor
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods. -- Lee Konitz
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. -- William James
The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema? -- Christy Lemire
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history. -- Assata Shakur
Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans. -- Christian Louboutin
Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements. -- Jonathan Frakes
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. -- Thomas Carlyle
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. -- Thomas Carlyle
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. -- Hunter S. Thompson
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. -- Julie Andrews
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. -- Eugene V. Debs
In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. -- Lindsay Davenport
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history? -- Julie Burchill
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. -- Florian Znaniecki
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. -- Jon Meacham
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. -- Michael Holroyd
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use. -- Ruth Benedict
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. -- Thomas Sowell
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. -- Ethan Suplee
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. -- Eskinder Nega
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. -- Allan Sherman
It is in the tiny struggles of individual peoples that the great movements of history are most truly revealed. -- Rosa Luxemburg
Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? -- Dorothy Salisbury Davis
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. -- Jon Meacham
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history. -- William Halsey
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty. -- Maureen Chiquet
I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers. -- H. L. Mencken
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. -- Charles Darwin
I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history. -- Harry S. Dent
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. -- Douglas MacArthur
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. -- John F. Kennedy
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history. -- Michael Scheuer
Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United. -- Johan Cruijff
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. -- Dorothy Garlock
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. -- William Hazlitt
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater. -- Elizabeth Olsen
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. -- Heinrich Heine
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain. -- Thomas Paine
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. -- William Landay
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. -- Indira Gandhi
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, -- Antonio Guterres
I am proud of Hillary Clinton because she has been and is a great history maker - in everything she has done. -- Tim Kaine
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it. -- Ronald Reagan
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. -- Edmond de Goncourt
I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals. -- Oscar Robertson

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