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Quote by Norman Cousins
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place whe

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins

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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. – Elias Canetti, The Human Province

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If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. – Strom Thurmond

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History

Whether a womans running for office or shes supporting her husband whos running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, theres just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. – Hillary Clinton

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History

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan

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