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I have been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

There is no one place a virus goes to die - but that Does not make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

The Jews greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We are a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you are not aware of that when you are a child, the whole tradition is lost.

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

People do not always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually do not, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.