“In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.”
— Tony Blair
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“A pacifist will often – at least nowadays – be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.”
— Christian Lous Lange
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“The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.”
— A. Whitney Brown
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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.”
— John F. Kennedy
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“It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.”
— Hannah Arendt
Author: Hannah Arendt
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“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.”
— Daisaku Ikeda
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
— George Eliot
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“Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.”
— Robert Mugabe
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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
— Warren Buffett
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