The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.
Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really did something for me.
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
