#history

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#among #arms #blackest #british #depriving

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#die #history #known #man #men

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

#changed #comparable #demands #diversity #earth

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#book #each #eras #fear #history

History never looks like history when you are living through it. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#like #living #looks #never #through

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#few #few men #history #men #obtain