“We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.”
— Thabo Mbeki
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“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
— John F. Kennedy
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“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.”
— Daniel H. Wilson
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“There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.”
— Salman Rushdie
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“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.”
— Samuel Butler
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“History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?”
— Jon Meacham
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“Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started – where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.”
— Novak Djokovic
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“The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”
— Walter Bagehot
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“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
— Louis D. Brandeis
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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
— H. G. Wells
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