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Quote by William Halsey
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances

There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. – William Halsey

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In many ways, history is marked as before and after Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. – Jesse Jackson

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. – Gertrude Stein

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Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. – William Hague

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