"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."

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"I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling."

Persis Khambatta, Indian Actress

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"I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene."

Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

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"Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!"

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"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves."

Thurston Moore, American Musician

History, Time, Future

"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice."

John M. McHugh, American Politician

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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options."

Henry Hampton, American Activist

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"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."

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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

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"A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."

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"I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling."

"I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally."

"The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene."

"Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!"

"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves."

"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."

"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

"Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice."

"Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options."

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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."

"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."

"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."

"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."

"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

"A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."

"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste."