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History, by apprising (men) of the past, will enable them to judge of the future, it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations

That whole area is very complicated -- boundaries are porous, there is a history of armed militias.

Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain and since labor is pain in itself it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.

Three years ago, I don't think Springfield would have been in the mix. But people go there to see history, and that's what we're all about.

Yeah, OK, Michael, ... That's why I've received the largest fines in history.

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

The scale of the influence and the emotional impact is rarely seen in the history of cross-Strait relations.

There should be no question about the respect this organization has for Frank and all that he has helped us accomplish, including a World Series championship. He is the greatest hitter in White Sox history. At the same time, it is my responsibility to make the best decisions I can on behalf of the organization. Our plan is to continue to speak with Frank and his representatives over the coming months as more information is known about his health.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

This might be the loosest team in baseball history. I think it's a credit to the guys in this room. We never quit, we never get down, and when we lose a game ... we come back the next day and give it our best shot. And when you have a guy like Roy, who wins 20 games even though we didn't score any runs for him, you have to like your chances.

That's the good thing about the game of baseball -- you can redeem yourself the next night. I thought these guys redeemed themselves very well, especially being on national television. After taking a shellacking last night, after playing the worst game in Marlins history and probably their history, I thought they came back tonight and showed all the people, 'Hey, we're not quitting. We're not giving up.' We may get beat, but we're not giving up.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

This project has universal appeal. Who hasn't wondered what our daily lives might be like if certain moments in history had gone a different way. 'What If' will take an exciting, thought-provoking approach to imagining such possibilities.

You probably want to subtract about two-tenths of a percent from first-quarter GDP growth. But that's looking like very old history, with the Fed having eased twice since the first quarter. From the market's perspective, you feel like you're in a different world already. The first quarter looks very distant, indeed.

I consider a number of things in determining what I feel is an appropriate punishment in a particular case. In every case I look at whether or not the defendant has a history of trouble and the nature of the charge.

The committee's focus is on what we positively know about Buck, and that is he was a very important part of our baseball history, not just Negro League history, and he was honored by being a very strong candidate for election.

I'd like to create a little bit of history - it would be a great way to end the year. I know I can do it. Every time I come down to Australia, I always feel I could win all three.

agreement is the transforming force of history.

They send in a fingerprint card or a misdemeanor citation with fingerprints on it. They're put into a criminal history.

In fact, he has a history of not only serving under a Republican president, but he's endorsed Allen before. His job is to explain to Democratic primary voters why he's a Democrat - and why they should abandon somebody who's been a long-term Democrat and s

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasurethe way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale.

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

I think a productive economy is the main thing people should take home with them. This is a unique period in American history. I think we'll look back on it as a time you wanted to own stocks rather than trade stocks. I think, secondarily, corporate America is showing good earnings reports. The second half of this year may be lower than the second half of last year, but they're still robust, probably in the high teens. I think if you focus on financial guide posts, that eventually will drive prices. I think you'll see the market in general do better as the year wears on.

Frankly, we question the timing of this announcement on the heels of one of the largest mergers in the history of software,

We have a history of doing things in situations like these. And our president has made it clear that we want to talk to all of our associates, some of whom lost homes, and we will help them first before we begin assessing what role we can play overall.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

In most periods throughout history, households were net suppliers of money to the economy, ... Today, by a record amount, they are net borrowers from the rest of the economy.

There were more failures of intelligence on his watch as director of the CIA than any other director of Central Intelligence in our history, ... I have long felt that, while an honorable man, he lacked the critical leadership necessary for our intelligence community to effectively operate, particularly in the post-911 world.

Every gang member that I have worked with is enamored by the hip-hop culture and the lifestyles of this genre's rich and famous. It is common for youths to emulate these rap artists by wearing similar gangster-type clothing. This alone is not concerning. The concern evolves when the behavior and attitude begin to go as south as the pants. Certain rap artists tout their criminal history, gang affiliation and their fortune of surviving gun battles. It becomes a concern, when dealing with a very troubled individual that is consumed by the gang mentality.

NARAL lost all credibility when it ran an advertisement earlier in the month that will go down in the history of political advertisements as one of the most rancid and dishonest ads ever run. Sadly, this ad continues this pattern of distortion.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a matter of fact, mortgage rates in 2004 averaged around 5.84 percent, the second lowest annual rate ever recorded in the history of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs.

Although it's a huge task, it's an exciting task to bring out so much of the history of an extraordinary area for the first time.

He'll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records.

My goal is to relate history to the modern day, ... History can give you an advantage because if you control the past, you control the future.

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

We're dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history. This recovery will take a long time. This recovery will take years,

This is going to piggy-back the little guys. This is history. Whenever they mention the Final Four, they have to mention us.

to go down in the annals of history for that. But I don't want to live in that rut forever.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

History is fables agreed upon.

We believe that he's Burton disqualified himself because of the way he's conducted himself he has not been shown to be impartial and objective he has put out hundreds of subpoenas without a vote from the committee for the first time in the history of the committee and lately he's been putting out edited transcripts of what should have been confidential conversations, but he's gone the further step of editing them to make them look bad for the administration,

It is probably the single most significant step in the history of the exchange.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.