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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.