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After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. -- Jeffrey Deitch
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination. -- Jesse Ventura
I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are. -- Barry Humphries
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history. -- David Price
Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political mission. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war. -- William C. Kirby
The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents. -- Bob Schaffer
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. -- Rowan Williams
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. -- Jared Diamond
When a television show like 'Scandal' becomes the biggest show in recent history, suddenly advertisers and networks want to jump on that. And what it's showing is that people want to see diversity. -- Jussie Smollett
With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history. -- Chuck Todd
If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to tackle the recent history of where we have come from. It's not only a responsibility, but a privilege. -- James Nesbitt
China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world. -- Gary Locke
I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector. -- Sean Quinn
I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered. -- Lucas Papademos
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.' -- Robert M. Gates
For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives. -- Geoff Mulgan
One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone. -- Pico Iyer
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Aside from Donald Trump, polls find [Hillary] Clinton to be the least-liked presidential candidate in recent history. -- Tamara Keith
Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress. -- Uma Thurman
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind. -- Allen Ginsberg
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. -- Frank Zappa
Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents. -- Paul Kengor
Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura . -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history. -- Mitt Romney
The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that. -- Ehud Olmert
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. -- Khaled Hosseini
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history. -- Eckhart Tolle
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, -- Antonio Guterres
The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. -- Shulamith Firestone
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are whatâ??s best for black people, -- Elbert Guillory
If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way. -- Terry Eagleton
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it's that self-regulation doesn't work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance. -- James Surowiecki
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war. -- William C. Kirby
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development -- Donald Bradman
The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses. -- John C. Malone
Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West. -- Edward Abbey
During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists. -- Hector Elizondo
The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation. -- Yanar Mohammed
I try not to think about legacy because it is all Âfolly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten. -- Steve Martin

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