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I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. -- Sun Ra
Every country has a dark side of their history. -- Miyavi
The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. -- Bill Bryson
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. -- Anne Sullivan
I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight. -- Barry McGuigan
I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess. But with the darkness can also come entrepreneurialism, genius traits. -- Rebel Wilson
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. -- Bill Bryson
If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history. -- Thom Yorke
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read. -- Sarah MacLean
History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. -- Terence McKenna
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety. -- Ezra Taft Benson
We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre. -- Chris Stapleton
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition. -- Eric Stoltz
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy. -- David Blunkett
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history. -- Ariel Dorfman
Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark, gray, lamenting monochromatic world of the '50s, I had a sense that both Jewish and English history were full of color and light and animation. -- Simon Schama
I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there. -- Michael Eklund
You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected. -- Michael Steele
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. -- George R. R. Martin
When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age. -- Tenzin Palmo
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. -- Anne Sullivan
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. -- Indira Gandhi
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians. -- Dan Simmons
No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night. -- Terence McKenna
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth -- Robert Hayden

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