"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

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"In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

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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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past."

Ron Chernow, American Author

History, Historians, Past

"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

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"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history."

Tom Wolfe, American Journalist

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"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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"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."

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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!"

"I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past."

"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."

"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history."

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"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

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"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."

"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."

"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."

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"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."

"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."