#history

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

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Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#certain #chance #even #history #make

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#astronaut #found #genie #her #history

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#cyclic #man #memories #poem #time

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. ↗

— Alan Shepard

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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#applied #because #being #believe #book

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#been #complexity #definition #down #film

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#danger #downturn #downward #give #history

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. ↗

— John J. Sirica

#after #already #attempt #doubt #former

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

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