#story

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#believe #floridians #greatest #heart #history

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#being #both #children #country #decisions

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#also #apology #australia #australian #australians

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#always #before #evil #existed #express

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#catcher #catcher in the rye #like #me #rye

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#advantage #automatically #best #called #divine

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#happen #history #knew #littered #never

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#going #had #heard #i #overnight

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done. ↗

— Hal Price

#being #being done #done #going #history

Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement. ↗

— Alan Price

#away #change #destroy #go #heritage