I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. Nixon
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. -
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. -
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. -
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. -
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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