"The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history."

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"The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history."

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"The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history."

History, Independence

"The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues."

Environment, Investment, States, Waste

"America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care."

Health, America, Care, Country

"While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country."

Constitution, Country, Elections, Iraq

"Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks."

Creation, Efficiency, Energy, Jobs

"Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain."

Nation,

"The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy."

Business, Health, Nature, Growth

"As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American."

Energy, Dependence, Effect, Nations

"We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability."

Burden, Commitment, Conservation, Country

"In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure."

Nation, Pressure

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

History, Books, Knowledge, Order, Learning

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

History, Repetition, Lesson, Past

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

History, Printing, Years

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

Voltaire, French Writer

History, Corruption, Nature, Violence, Humanity

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

History, Moon, Change, Truth

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Echo, Future, Past

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Goodness

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

History, Memory, Identity, Crime

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

History, Regret, Learning, Mistake