Events In History Quotes

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, War, Past

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find it incomprehensible that so many people could have attracted themselves to the event. By the law of attraction, they had to be on the same frequency as the event. . . .those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, People, Secret

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• The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

  Crane Brinton

  History, Events, Doctrine

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• Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

  C. Wright Mills

  Fate, Men, Decision

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.182, Oxford University Press

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• In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.

  Del Howison

  Halloween, Topics, Gimmicks

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• All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Drama, Events, Different

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book X, 27,

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• There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Europe, Crucifixion Of Christ, Meditation

  "Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita" by Paul Molinari, 1993.

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• The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

  John Piper

  Jesus, Events, Way

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