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• Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

  Spike Lee

  Country, Rap, America

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• Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an American audience, and that is that the Islamic world has a very strong sense of history. In the Muslim world, history is important and their knowledge of history is not always accurate but is very detailed. There is a strong historical sense in the Muslim world, a feeling for the history of Islam from the time of the Prophet until the present day.

  Bernard Lewis

  Strong, Islamic, Feelings

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• My old mind hadn’t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I’d brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle’s compassion and Esme’s devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Heart, Compassion

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• There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Wrath, Tears, Hot

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

  Walt Whitman

  Umpires, Justice, Judging

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.385, NYU Press

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• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Inspirational, Success, New Year

  Interview with Gwen Marder, www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2004.

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• There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

  Karl Popper

  Political, World, Kind

  The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) vol. 2, ch. 25

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• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Patriotic, Sublime

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

  Prince Charles

  Attitude, People, History

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

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• It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape. The future experience of Christendom, and chiefly of the American states, must settle this problem, as yet new in the history of the world, abundant, as it has been, in experiments in the theory of government.

  Joseph Story

  Religious, Government, Support

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.700

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• They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Peace, Military, War

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Religious, Hate, Race

  Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Men, Together

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.515, Da Capo Press

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• For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

  Aldous Huxley

  Buddhism, Atheism, World

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• You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

  Bill Maher

  Lucky, World, Born

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home", 2003.

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• The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Moon, Night

  "Election Guide: Romney Rhetoric". Interview with Jason Williams, www.cityweekly.net. October 31, 2012.

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• History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, History, Looks

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John W. Gardner, December, 1968.

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• The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Eye, Anxiety, Want

  'Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835' 18 May

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• There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Peace, Eye, Perspective

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

  Lawrence Summers

  Car, Liberty, World

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• It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

  Gertrude Stein

  History, Doe, Soothing

  "Wars I Have Seen". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1945.

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• Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States.

  James K. Polk

  Party, People, History

  Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.

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• The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Justice, Literature, World

  "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper, 1945.

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• Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

  Stacy Schiff

  Rome, Play, Ambitious

  "Interview with Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra'". Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2010.

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• America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, America, Honor

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", Live Coverage of Republican Presidential Contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, www.cnn.com. February 7, 2012.

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