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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful,

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. – James A. Baldwin

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Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead. – Marty Meehan

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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. – Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship

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History

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey

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No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. – Phyllis Schlafly

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History

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People can die of mere imagination. – Geoffrey Chaucer

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Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. – John Carmack

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My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldnt want to ruin their happiness – even if that happiness is ignorance. – Katy Perry

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When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty. – Charles Stanley

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