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History is written by the winners. - Alex Haley

History is written by the winners. – Alex Haley

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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. – Alex Haley

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Family
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My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. – Alex Haley

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Hope
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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. – Alex Haley

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Society
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Other Quotes from
History
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I feel like Im part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, Ive got to do a better job. – Andrea Jung

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History

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. – Louis D. Brandeis

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History

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasnt always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be. – Anne Roiphe

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History

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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History

Random Quotes

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Confidence

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. – Jack Johnson

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Dreams

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. – Sachin Tendulkar

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Death

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. – Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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Ignorance