Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

How do you make any sense of history art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50 Caucasian thin small-framed and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking 'I've got to do a better job.'

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all by God's Will united in spirit and in aim.

While history never repeats itself political patterns do.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history nothing beats complete silence.

Time and time again history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees you have such a sense of the passage of time of history. It's like you're touching the essence the very substance of life.

Our history is that we can very aggressively if necessary and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

Right around the end of the fifties college students and young people in general began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

But whenever history is in the making there's some kind of intangible feeling.

Meditation while walking has a long noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric able to take in current events history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers because they're black can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.