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History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.

We have a long history of our reputation speaking for itself.

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the camera and go figure it out.

Benzino has a long, credible history as a rapper and as a producer.

To think I thought you could lose your place in history.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.

My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

I'm in this sport to be the champion. I want to be a great champion and go down in history for it.

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.

Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'

The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.

The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.

I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. 'The T.A.M.I. Show' will live forever because now it's brand new. We did that 40-odd years ago, and people are really starting to see it now. I was a part of history when I recorded that show.

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.