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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the co

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. Theres so much more to the story. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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In history people dressed much better than we do today. – Vivienne Westwood

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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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