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History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom
Capitalism and Freedom (1962) Ch. 1 -
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Speech, 16 jan. 1984 -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014) -
I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
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