#history

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#concept #especially #game #history #know

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#been #black #distorted #either #history

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#coming #does #east #frustration #highest

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#country #dear #history #iran #our

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#any #blast #blows #firmly #set

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#best #certainly #effective #ever #game

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#greatest #history #look #men #people

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#common #destiny #ever #face #friends

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ↗

— Aristotle

#finer #history #more #only #particular

In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the same path - but not in vain; for that very guilt was to hasten the coming of liberty and the hatred of kings, and to ensure that the throne it won should never again be occupied. ↗

— Livy

#political-science #science