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The supreme purpose of history is a better world. -- Herbert Hoover
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes. -- Jackson Katz
In the Bible, we have the facts and history of man's redemption. Incidentally or essentially, other worlds and other beings are brought prominently on the stage of redemption purposes and plans. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it. -- Nelson Rockefeller
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it. -- Michael Apted
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. -- Walter Russell Mead
So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world. -- Fred Thompson
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire. -- Simon Greenleaf
Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course. -- Sharon Kay Penman
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. -- Carl Jung
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be. -- Bjornstjerne Bjornson
In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study. -- Philip Johnson
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum. -- Ban Ki-moon
History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose. -- George W. Bush
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The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States. -- John E. Rankin
Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history. -- Newt Gingrich
History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose. -- J. H. Plumb
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see -- Seth Grahame-Smith
I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose. -- Santosh Kalwar
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none. -- Walter Scott

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