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We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.


Steven C. Rockefeller

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THOMAS MALTHUS The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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EDMUND MORGAN The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American pe...
JAMES R. CLAPPER I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.
CHLOE BENNET Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
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PETER MAASS The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore...
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MURRAY GELL-MANN Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death."
STEVEN ERIKSON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER The people who have the weakest credit histories are in great danger of falling into a predatory env...
KAREN HILL The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign p...
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DORIS LESSING We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSON The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
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MIKE D We thought it was mainstream, ... We said, do it mainstream. We're American. We grew up here with ev...
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RON BRACKIN Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans.
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GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
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HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT We die a day at a time
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WALTER HARRISON one of the architects of ethnic cleansing.
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ROBERT HALL Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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C. JOYBELL C. Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C. As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, s...
C. JOYBELL C. When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C. Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destin...
C. JOYBELL C. I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C. For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of ...
C. JOYBELL C. Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!
C. JOYBELL C. Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c...
C. JOYBELL C. You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your...
C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and ov...
C. JOYBELL C. I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to fi...
C. JOYBELL C. It should be a privilege to be able to say "I love you" to someone. It shouldn't be something people...
C. JOYBELL C. Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs t...
C. JOYBELL C. I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all th...
C. JOYBELL C. If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned...
C. JOYBELL C. In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am alr...
C. JOYBELL C. She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew...
C. JOYBELL C. They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of t...
C. JOYBELL C. You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, al...
C. JOYBELL C. We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matte...
C. JOYBELL C. You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have...
C. JOYBELL C. I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ...
C. JOYBELL C. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- ...
C. JOYBELL C. There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage cer...
C. JOYBELL C. You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that...
C. JOYBELL C. A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside you...
C. JOYBELL C. People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't ...
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