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We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

History passes the final judgment.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.