I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. — George W. Bush

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Life moves fast. As much as you can, learn from your history, you have to move forward.

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes. ― Joseph Stalin

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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin

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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. - OSCAR WILDE

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No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? ― Steve Maraboli

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History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own. — Michelle Obama, attorney and former First Lady of the United States

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