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For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about' ↗

— Tia Carrere

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. ↗

— Angela Carter

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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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History is the science of things which are not repeated. ↗

— Paul Valery

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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. ↗

— George William Curtis

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