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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.