#the history of

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. ↗

— Chris Rock

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The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day. ↗

— R. Kelly

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East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. ↗

— William Kirby

#century #east #east asia #end #first

There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#comes #confidence #embrace #forward #fully

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#extent #few #history #known #languages

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#history #long #long struggle #past #struggle

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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