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• But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Sargent Shriver

  God, Men, Fire

  "Transcript of Shriver's Acceptance Speech". www.nytimes.com. August 09, 1972.

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• The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

  William Hardy McNeill

  Wisdom, Islamic, Example

  "Keeping Together in Time". Book by William Hardy McNeill, Ch. 4: Religious Ceremonies, 1995.

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• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

  Jacques Chirac

  Hands, Long, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Garden

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end of the accursed war, for unification. This striving of the workers for unification is the greatest factor in world history.

  Grigory Zinoviev

  War, Rain, Long

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• It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.

  Chase Jarvis

  Country, Photography, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, bermangraphics.com. 2011.

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• The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

  Bud Selig

  Sports, Country, Mean

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• To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Writing, Science, Clothes

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.111, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.84, Penguin Books India

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• So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Race, Racing

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.119, Metropolitan Books

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• No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.

  Bob Wright

  Doctors, World, Immune System

  "The “Dark Black Sucking Hole” of Cancer Research Funding". Interview with Ty Bollinger, thetruthaboutcancer.com. September 13, 2016.

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• White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, White Man, Europe

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• In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Animal, World, Earth

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• No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, World, Sin

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• America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Men, America, World

  The Oxford History of the American People ch. 2 (1965)

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• The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Creation Of Man, World

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mean, Men, Done

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  War, Blow, Years

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• ...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Imagination, Say Anything, World

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• Intercessors constitute the greatest unseen group of spiritual heroes in world history. Their labors are not seen, but the results are. Those who pray for the spiritual needs of others do immeasurable good in the world, often preventing (at least for a time) divine judgment.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Hero, Unseen

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• We've had the most massive creation of wealth for people a lot younger than those who formerly got wealth in the history of the world. The world is full of young people who really want to get rich, and when I left school nobody thought it was a reasonable possibility.

  Charlie Munger

  School, People, World

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• The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

  Helen Westley

  World, Ennui, Conquest

  "The Confessions of Helen Westley" by Djuna Barnes in New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine, September 23, 1917.

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• They've been changing the cry from "global warming" to "climate change" because there's so little evidence there's actually any warming going on. I believe that as little as a decade from now, global warming will be recognized as one of the greatest swindles in world history. It has so little scientific basis, it can only rationally be considered a political scam.

  Doug Casey

  Believe, Political, Climate

  "Doug Casey on Global Warming". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. October 7, 2009.

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• Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, War, Hands

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• By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

  August Sander

  Sight, Years, Cameras

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