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the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Quotations regarding 'History'

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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
Kate Millett, American Activist (1934-  )
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.
Kate Millett, American Activist (1934-  )
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills, American Sociologist (1916-1962)
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavian Criminal (1941-2006)
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
Czeslaw Milosz, Poet (1911-2004)
Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
Timothy R. Minnich, Scientist
You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.
Kylie Minogue, Australian Musician (1968-  )
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist (1881-1973)
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist (1881-1973)
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist (1881-1973)
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
George J. Mitchell, American Politician (1933-  )
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
George J. Mitchell, American Politician (1933-  )
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Francois Mitterrand, French Statesman (1916-1996)
I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.
Gretchen Mol, American Actress (1972-  )
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere, French Playwright (1622-1673)
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
James Monroe, American President (1758-1831)
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.
Alfred A. Montapert, American Author
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
John Moody, American Businessman
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
John Moody, American Businessman
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.
John Moody, American Businessman
 
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