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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856

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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Table – Talk

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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs. – King Abdullah II

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Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. – John Podhoretz

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The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. – David Thelen

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