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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

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The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. ↗

— John Moody

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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

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The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. ↗

— William Kirby

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