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  • Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

    Light   Sea   History  
  • The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

    Party   Dirty   Kgb  
  • At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

    War   Marine   Important  
  • From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

    Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).
  • We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

    Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY
  • The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history.

    War   Blow   Years  
  • The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such a conspiracy (to destroy Christianity and obtain global power). The world-wide net-work of diabolical conspirators implements this plot against the Christian faith while Christians appear to be sound asleep. The Christian clergy appear to be more ignorant or more indifferent about this conspiracy than other Christians ... It seems so sad.

    Christian   Home   Past  
  • What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind

    Mean   Men   Keys  
    C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.28, Oxford University Press
  • The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

    Sports   Country   Mean  
  • It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

    Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley (2006). “The Essential Darwin”, p.149, Courier Corporation
  • Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

    Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. December 06, 2000.
  • No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

    Men   Greatness   History  
    On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)
  • No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

    Country   Israel   People  
  • We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

    Book   Thinking   Roots  
    Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
  • Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).

    Events   World   Language  
  • In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself for his ancestors for his intellectual development a study of the Vedic literature is indeed indispensable.

  • It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

    Change   Hope   Courage  
    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

    Jessamyn West (1966). “A Matter of Time”
  • You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

    Lucky   World   Born  
    "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home", 2003.
  • Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

  • I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

    Jesus   Simple   Trying  
    "Catholic cardinal calls on Christians to wear their crosses every day" by Damien Pearse, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.
  • Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

    Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.
  • What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

    War   Europe   Important  
    "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.
  • There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

    People   World   Looks  
  • It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

    People   History   Luck  
  • History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

    "No Easy Victories". Book by John W. Gardner, December, 1968.
  • He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.33, Pan Macmillan
  • Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

    Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.194, Pan Macmillan
  • Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

    People   World   Poverty  
    Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
  • Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end of the accursed war, for unification. This striving of the workers for unification is the greatest factor in world history.

    War   Rain   Long  
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