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It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865. — Neal Shusterman

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. — Paul Ryan

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise. — Thierry Henry

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history. — Raymond Williams

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea. — Douglas Coupland

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations. — Arthur Koestler

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. — Tom Stoppard

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

History marches to the drum of a clear idea. — W. H. Auden

Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls. — David Levithan

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. — Rosa Parks

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history. — Keith Richards

One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does. — Matthew Pearl

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes. — Chris Squire

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion. — Morley Safer

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. — Catherine Opie

I think it would be an excellent idea. — Mahatma Gandhi

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. — Pat Metheny

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state ... it means the end of a thousand years of history. — Hugh Gaitskell

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it. — Clint Eastwood

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them. — Sam Wineburg

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person. — Ralph Bunche

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nothing is lost in history: sooner or later every creative idea finds opportunity and development, and adds its color to the flame of life. — Will Durant

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history. — Scott Belsky

The doctrine of Original Sin is the most democratizing idea in all of human history. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another. — Selma Dabbagh

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West. — Pankaj Mishra

To be an American is not ... a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea
and history is the image of that idea. — Robert Penn Warren

This is the worst idea in the history of ideas, yet I can't stop myself from nodding. — Denise Grover Swank

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict. — Scott Westerfeld

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history. — Jonathan Coe

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period. — George W. S. Trow

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition. — Rory Stewart

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie. — V.S. Naipaul

If you had your time all over again ... ? She was keen to know.
You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do. — Maeve Binchy

History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

What is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it. — Richard Killeen

I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing. — Gabrielle Anwar