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Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called progressives should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans was not that terrible.