History Quotes
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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
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“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
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“Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.”
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“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
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“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
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“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
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“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.”
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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
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“There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.”
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“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”
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“I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”
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“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
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“Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.”
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“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
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“Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.”
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“I did not come to NASA to make history.”
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“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.”
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“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
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“Time is my greatest enemy.”
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“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!”
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“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”
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“The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.”
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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
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“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
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“I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.”
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“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
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“Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.”
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“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
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“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”
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“In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.”
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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”
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“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
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“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
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“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.”
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“The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.”
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“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”
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“Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”
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“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”
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“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
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“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
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“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”
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“History develops, art stands still.”
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“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”
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“The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.”
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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
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“Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.”
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“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.”
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“The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.”
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“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
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“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.”
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“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.”
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“I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.”
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“I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.”
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“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.”
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“You have to look at history as an evolution of society.”
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“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.”
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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
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“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”
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“I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.”
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“The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.”
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“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
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“On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.”
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“They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.”
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“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”
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“The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.”
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“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.”
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“I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.”
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“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.”
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“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”
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“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
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“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
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“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”
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“A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.”
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“Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.”
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“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.”
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“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
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“Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.”
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”
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“If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.”
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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.”
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“We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.”
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“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.”
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“It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.”
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“In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.”
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“When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.”
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“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
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“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.”
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“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
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“You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.”
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“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
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“In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.”
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“The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.”
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“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
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“France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.”
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“History is a vast early warning system.”
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“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”
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“Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.”
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“The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.”
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“The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.”
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“History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.”
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“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
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“History is more or less bunk.”
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“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
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“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”
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“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
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“If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.”
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“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”
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“That great dust-heap called 'history'.”
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“The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.”
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“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
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“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.”
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“Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.”
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“History is a vision of God's creation on the move.”
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“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”
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“It's a very good historical book about history.”
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“I was France.”
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“Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.”
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“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”
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“Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.”
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“Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.”
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“Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.”
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“The history of mankind is the history of ideas.”
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“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”
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“Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.”
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“I let the American people down.”
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“It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.”
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“To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.”
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“The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.”
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“An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.”
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“Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.”
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“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”
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“The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.”
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“The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.”
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“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”
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“All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.”
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“We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.”
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“Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.”
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“We learned the value of research in World War II.”
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“Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.”
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“World War II was the last government program that really worked.”
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“One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.”
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“Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.”
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“The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”
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“It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.”
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“We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.”
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“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.”
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“They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.”
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“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.”
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“To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.”
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“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.”
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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.”
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“Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.”
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“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
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“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
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“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”
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“I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.”
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“I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.”
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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
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“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
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“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”
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“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
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“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”
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“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”
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“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”
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“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”
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“History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.”
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“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”
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“History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.”
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.”
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“We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.”
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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
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“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.”
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“History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.”
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“No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO.”
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“I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.”
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
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“We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.”
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“History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.”
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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
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“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
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“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
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“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”
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“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
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“History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'”
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“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
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“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”
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“My dad is white, he's an art history teacher, he's very traditional.”
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“Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.”
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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
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“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
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“Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.”
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“English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.”
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“If you don't know your history, you can't know your future.”
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“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.”
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“History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.”
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“More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.”
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“Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.”
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“A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.”
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“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.”
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“Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.”
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“History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.”
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“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.”
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“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.”
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“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”
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“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”
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“I was reading a book… 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.”
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“Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.”
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“Sometimes - history needs a push.”
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“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
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“History shows that there are no invincible armies.”
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“I don't have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It's what's most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.”
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“Journalism is in fact history on the run.”
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“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.”
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“History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.”
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“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”
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“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”
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“The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.”
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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
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“I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.”
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“The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.”
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“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
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“There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.”
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“The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.”
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“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”
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“Ideas shape the course of history.”
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“History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.”
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“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
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“Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people.”
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“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.”
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“You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.”
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“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”
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“We can't change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things - the sacrifices our loved ones made, and the price of our freedom today.”
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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”
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“History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.”
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“Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.”
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“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.”
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“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”
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“History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.”
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“I want history to remember me… not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.”
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“Our history is not our destiny.”
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“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.”
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“The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.”
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“Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.”
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“It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.”
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“The history of mankind is a history of war.”
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“There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.”
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“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
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“I am responsible only to God and history.”
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“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
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“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”
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“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
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“I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.”
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“My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.”
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“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”
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“That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.”
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“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”
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“Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.”
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“I'm trying to push for common-sense gun reform and mental illness reform so we can make sure that these individuals that have a criminal background that are mentally unstable and have a history of domestic violence are no longer able to get a gun.”
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“You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.”
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“You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.”
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“I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.”
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“It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.”
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“History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.”
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“History will judge me… I shall remain silent.”
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“I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.”
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“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
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“If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.”
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“Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.”
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“All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.”
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“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”
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“I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.”
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“Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.”
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“It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.”
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“A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.”
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“I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.”
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“We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.”
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“After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.”
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“In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.”
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“History is Philosophy teaching by example.”
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“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”
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“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.”
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“I believe in God. I believe that He's real and I believe He has control over a lot of things and I think throughout history there has been a lot of countries that have turned their back on Him and the result is not great.”
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“Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?”
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“God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.”
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“I love history… everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.”
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“We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.”
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“Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.”
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“You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.”
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“I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom… Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?”
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“History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.”
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“A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.”
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“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
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“Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.”
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“History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.”
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“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.”
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“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
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“Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.”
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“Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.”
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“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.”
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“The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.”
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“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.”
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“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.”
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“If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.”
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“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.”
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“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”
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“Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.”
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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
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“The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.”
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“What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.”
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“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
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“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.”
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“There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.”
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“Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.”
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“Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.”
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“The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.”
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“My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.”
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“We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.”
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“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
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“The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.”
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“Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.”
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“To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'”
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“History has proved that dictators can't last forever.”
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“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.”
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“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
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“I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.”
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“I see myself in competition with Blur and Oasis. But everyone else just sees me as this guy with a history.”
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“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.”
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“There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.”
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“Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.”
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“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.”
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“History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.”
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“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
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“The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.”
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“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
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“I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.”
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“The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.”
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“We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.”
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“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”
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“History is information. Memory is part of your identity.”
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“The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.”
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“Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.”
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“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”
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“If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly, no matter what - I believe that we're going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.”
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“History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.”
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“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.”
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“In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.”
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“In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.”
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“Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.”
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“The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.”
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“I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.”
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“We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.”
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“Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.”
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“Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.”
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“I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.”
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“We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.”
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“We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism.”
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“It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.”
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“For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.”
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“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
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“Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.”
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“Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.”
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“Love is love, even in its platonic, unromantic sense. Once you have that connection between two people, the only thing that gets in the way is circumstance, history, what each person has gone through.”
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“The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.”
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“The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'”
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“If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.”
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“If you think you have it tough, read history books.”
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“With style, history repeats itself. But when it does, there's something different about it. I like the continuation of that.”
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“September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.”
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“I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.”
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“Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.”
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“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'”
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“We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.”
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“The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.”
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“India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.”
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“I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.”
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“History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.”
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“History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.”
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“You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.”
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“The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.”
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“Certainly the history of astronomy shows that every time we thought we were special, we were wrong.”
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“It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.”
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“The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.”
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“Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.”
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“The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.”
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“History is written by the victors.”
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“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”
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“History is the best guide to the future.”
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“Here's what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.”
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“I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.”
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“Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.”
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“I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.”
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“OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.”
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“If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.”
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“History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.”
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“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
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“Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.”
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“It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.”
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“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”
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“If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.”
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“I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.”
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“I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.”
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“Obviously the Knicks have so much history and tradition, so to be a part of that is obviously a blessing for sure.”
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“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”
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“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.”
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“The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.”
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“History belongs to everyone. I don't think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don't think you want to write something that is impenetrable. You try as hard as you can to be readable.”
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“If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.”
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“Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.”
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“Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.”
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“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
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“I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.”
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“I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.”
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“For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.”
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“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”
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“We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.”
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“If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.”
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“Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.”
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“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.”
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“God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.”
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“Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.”
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“Stan Hansen is arguably the most popular, most famous, foreign wrestler in Japanese wrestling history. One of the absolute biggest names in wrestling.”
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“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”
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“If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.”
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“I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.”
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“Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.”
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“I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.”
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“When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.”
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“Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.”
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“It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.”
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“Nobody can doubt Puerto Rico, sociologically, linguistically, culturally, and historically, is a nation. We have our own rich culture, thousand years of history, unique territory, and almost everyone's first language is Spanish, not English.”
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“The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.”
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“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”
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“There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.”
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“I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.”
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“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
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“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
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“History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.”
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“The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.”
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“That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.”
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“To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.”
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“The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.”
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“History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.”
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“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”
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“Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.”
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“Kaka, he made history with Milan and if he is loved so much it means he did well.”
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“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
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“You either make money, or you make history.”
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“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”
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“History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.”
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“History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.”
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“I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.”
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“Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.”
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“If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.”
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“I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.”
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“Going through war and living is a very important process. You realize how vulnerable you are and how lucky you are to be in the right place at the right time. As a matter of fact, I have a history of luck.”
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“Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.”
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“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
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“God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.”
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“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
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“A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.”
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“The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.”
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“The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.”
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“A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators.”
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“A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.”
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“I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'”
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“'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.”
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“As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.”
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“Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.”
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“My message was 'Think African. Make schools read African history.'”
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“All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
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“The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.”
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“I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.”
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“I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own history, its own characteristic, but they are all important.”
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“I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.”
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“History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.”
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“I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.”
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“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”
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“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.”
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“It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.”
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“The history of the world is the world's court of justice.”
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“The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States.”
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“You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.”
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“If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.”
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“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”
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“We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.”
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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.”
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“In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.”
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“I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.”
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“The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.”
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“Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.”
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“The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there's no more arrow of time.”
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“I do not know all the history behind our courageous L.G.B.T.Q. community, but I am eager to learn and to help continue the fight for equality and acceptance.”
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“The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'”
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“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”
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“History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.”
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“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”
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“We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of the world we must be the focus of bitter amusement, characters in a satire we don't understand. It is British people that don't learn languages, or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal.”
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“It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.”
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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
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“History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.”
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“Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.”
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“The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.”
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“Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.”
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“Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.”
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“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.”
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“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
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“Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.”
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“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.”
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“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
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“From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”
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“The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.”
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“The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.”
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“My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”
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“I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.”
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“I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.”
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“Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.”
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“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”
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“The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.”
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“Legend remains victorious in spite of history.”
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“History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'”
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“Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.”
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“As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.”
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“My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.”
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“Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.”
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“History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?”
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“History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.”
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“The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.”
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“The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.”
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“Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up in the air.”
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“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
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“My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.”
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“I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals… I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.”
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“There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.”
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“The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.”
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“No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.”
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“Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.”
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“The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.”
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“Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.”
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“Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.”
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“I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.”
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“Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.”
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“The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.”
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“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
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“Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.”
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“I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.”
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“I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.”
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“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”
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“The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.”
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“As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government.”
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“We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.”
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“You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.”
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“The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.”
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“Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.”
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“Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.”
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“The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.”
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“Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.”
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“Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”
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“Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.”
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“As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.”
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“Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.”
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“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”
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“Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.”
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“History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.”
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“Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.”
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“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”
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“If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.”
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“Today is reality. Yesterday is history.”
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“Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.”
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“In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.”
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“Since Charles Dolan founded Cablevision in 1973, the Dolan family has been honored to help shepherd our customers and employees through the most extraordinary communications revolution in modern history.”
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“Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.”
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“History passes the final judgment.”
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“I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'”
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“For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.”
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“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
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“There is a long history of research showing that people are overconfident about their abilities. But it turns out that people in general are not overconfident about their abilities; people with a fixed mindset are overconfident.”
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“I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.”
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“The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.”
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“Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.”
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“History is a relay of revolutions.”
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“History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.”
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“I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.”
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“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
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“As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.”
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“We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.”
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“Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.”
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“For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.”
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“Never, ever forget history.”
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“What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?”
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“I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.”
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“If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.”
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“History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.”
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“There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should always be wise stewards of the earth and all of our natural resources. But as a policymaker, I won't be guided by the global warming propaganda machine. Al Gore - we need you to return your Nobel Peace Prize!”
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“The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.”
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“A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.”
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“I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'”
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“It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is equally important.”
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“Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a shoemaker. You speak differently to your mother, who comes from Burgundy, and to your father, who comes from Swabia.”
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“I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.”
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“Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.”
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“History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.”
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“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.”
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“Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”
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“For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name.”
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“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”
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“The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.”
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“The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.”
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“History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”
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“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”
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“The Thames is liquid history.”
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“Before you begin a paranormal investigation, the most important criteria you need to gather is the back history of the location.”
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“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
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“The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.”
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“In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.”
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“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”
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“The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.”
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“Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.”
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“History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.”
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“Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.”
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“I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola… That's my mission.”
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“I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.”
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“If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.”
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“If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.”
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“A family shares hardships and a connected history.”
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“If you sit down to write a limerick, you find yourself straddling two histories: the history of the limerick form itself, which stretches back to at least the 11th century, and your personal history of knowing limericks or poems similar to limericks.”
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“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”
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“I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.”
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“The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.”
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“No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.”
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“The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for their cultural practices throughout history.”
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“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
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“Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.”
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“Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S.”
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“I love Swindon. OK, it's not a place where you can almost smell the history, like Rome or Florence. It's an industrial town. That may not seem 'cool' to some people, but it only makes me love Swindon more.”
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“But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.”
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“Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.”
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“The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.”
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“I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It's not about money, it's about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.”
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“We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.”
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“If you forget your history, you forget who you are.”
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“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.”
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“I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.”
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“The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.”
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“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”
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“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.”
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“The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”
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“Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.”
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“I was probably the worst calculus student in the history of my high school.”
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“I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.”
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“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”
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“As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.”
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“I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.”
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“No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.”
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“'These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.' - bell hooks”
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“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.”
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“Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.”
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“When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.”
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“I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.”
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“I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.”
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“During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.”
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“Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.”
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“It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.”
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“From an early age, Yosemite became the centre of my universe. I've been going every summer since I was a child. I love everything about that place: waterfalls, high-quality rock, history.”
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“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.”
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“A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.”
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“It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.”
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“I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.”
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“The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.”
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“Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.”
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“I ask every Australian to think about what the constitutional exclusion says to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, to see our vast and inspiring history in this land not mentioned in the official picture like that.”
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“All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.”
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“Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.”
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“The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.”
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“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.”
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“Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.”
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“I'm focused on being the best, making history.”
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“Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.”
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“Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in some circumstances. But there is nothing in either their history or their physical attributes that suggests solar and wind in particular could or should be the centerpiece of efforts to deal with climate change.”
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“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.”
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“In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.”
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“History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.”
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“History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.”
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“Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.”
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“When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain.”
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“The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.”
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“Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.”
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“Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.”
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“Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.”
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“Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.”
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“Watching Rachel Maddow is like going to Target. You went in for milk, but you left with shampoo, candles, and the entire history of the Byzantine Empire. 'I didn't need this.'”
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“Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.”
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“Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.”
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“What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.”
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“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”
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“There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.”
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“Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.”
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“The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.”
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“The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.”
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“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”
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“Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.”
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“I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.”
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“I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.”
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“Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity - I admire wise men. Some of my favorite forms of history are religious history, what the sages say from the top of the mountain and how they view life.”
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“When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.”
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“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
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“Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off long ago and not still be showing geological activity. Pluto is, in fact, showing numerous examples of geological activity on a massive scale across the planet.”
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“I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history and culture, and I like the serenity of Buddhism there. It's very beautiful. I find that to be a very nice place to visit.”
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“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”
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“I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.”
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“Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?”
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“History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.”
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“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
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“Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.”
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“I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.”
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“I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.”
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“In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution - the incarceration and systematic extermination of whole peoples and groups in society. Then, from 1965, this became a preoccupation of writers - not always in an acceptable form.”
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“The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.”
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“If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I'd been cursed. And I've never had that feeling.”
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“People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.”
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“There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.”
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“One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.”
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“I can't rewrite history.”
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“If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.”
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“The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.”
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“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
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“Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.”
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“I think we're at a point in history where, generally, people consider themselves to be feminists in the sense that we believe in the equality of the sexes.”
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“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”
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“Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
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“The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.”
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“I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.”
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“Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.”
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“Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.”
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“If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.”
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“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
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“Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.”
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“Belgium is such a beautiful place with so much history and charm.”
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“I don't know where streaming will go in the future. The analytics that we're seeing tell us that streaming is the next thing, and downloads are going down. I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.”
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“There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.”
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“I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become… breaking their own stereotypes. We usually think of them as barbarians, but there were aspects to their society that shows a tremendous level of civilization, sophistication and social advance.”
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“If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.”
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“I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.”
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“Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.”
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“Ukraine and Israel have long-standing historical ties. Our nations have together experienced all the tragedies in recent history - the Holodomor and the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the totalitarian Soviet regime.”
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“In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”
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“They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.”
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“A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.”
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“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
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“History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.”
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“The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.”
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“Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.”
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“It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.”
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“That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.”
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“The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.”
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“Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.”
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“The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.”
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“The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.”
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“The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.”
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“There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.”
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“History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.”
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“In well-functioning markets, price equals opportunity cost. Meaning that the proper way to price out and charge us for things is to charge us what those resources could otherwise have produced. This is a lesson the Soviet Union never learned at all, and the rest is history.”
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“Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.”
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“At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.”
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“Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.”
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“There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.”
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“I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.”
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“It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.”
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“Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.”
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“Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.”
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“Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.”
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“It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'”
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“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.”
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“We know from our own history, and that of our neighbors, that where conflicts and disagreements are not resolved peacefully, the suffering and bloodshed that follows and the collapse of economic and social development leads to tragic consequences.”
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“I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.”
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“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.”
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“History will do what it always does. It will make ignorant statements, in retrospect, seem shortsighted and discriminatory, and the women who will serve their country bravely in the jobs that are now opening up will prove them wrong. Just like we always have.”
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“If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.”
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“The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.”
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“History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow.”
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“In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.”
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“I had a happy childhood in the suburbs of L.A. My parents instilled in us an appreciation of history, art and, most important, Motown. Jarron and I weren't allowed to listen to rap until we were 12. After our birthday I dashed to Target and bought DJ Quik's album 'Quik Is the Name.' I memorized every line.”
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“No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.”
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“When you have a history with me of being disrespectful, spiteful, and unapologetic, then you will be shown the nearest exit to the left.”
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“My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books… and only three cookbooks.”
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“I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire' or 'Gandhi.' They took Indian novels or Indian characters and very much stayed within the Indian diaspora.”
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“I have no history with 4chan.”
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“The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.”
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“Every country has a dark side of their history.”
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“I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.”
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“Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.”
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“Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.”
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“No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.”
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“Alabama's Black Belt region played a central role in both the history of our great state and our country. We cannot lose sight of the Black Belt's significant impact in the civil rights movement and the fact that this area is home to some of our state's most celebrated cultural figures.”
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“I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.”
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“If you're going to make comments on economy, study economy. If you're gonna make comments on world history, make sure you learn world history. If you're gonna save lives and be a doctor, you need to study medicine. Then, you will be able to make comments on economy, on medicine, and on world history.”
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“If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.”
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“I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a long, long period of time so I think it is absolutely right to have a country that is a Jewish state.”
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“It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.”
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“If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.”
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“I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.”
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“For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.”
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“Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.”
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“We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.”
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“Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.”
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“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
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“I lived in Italy for quite a while and married an Italian woman. While there, I immersed myself in the complete culture: the music, art, literature, film, food, and history. It's easy to fall in love with. As a country, Italy does a good job of holding onto its rich traditions and culture. There's a real lack of embracing history in America.”
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“The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.”
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“We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.”
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“This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.”
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“I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.”
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“For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.”
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“I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.”
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“If you're going to come to D.C. and it's your first time here, see the view from the bottom of the Washington Monument, looking out over the Reflecting Pool to the Lincoln. And see the Jefferson Memorial. It's so beautiful and such a part of the history of the city.”
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“I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature.”
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“Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.”
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“If you look at the history of the NBA, guys that came out of high school are the guys that held the NBA together. You look a Kobe Bryant, you look at a LeBron, these are household names.”
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“It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.”
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“I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.”
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“I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.”
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“I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this video revolution came along and ensured that canceled shows could continue to have a bit of a presence.”
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“'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.”
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“When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.”
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“The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.”
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“Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.”
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“The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.”
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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
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“Oh, my kids know me, and they know the Rammstein's history. It's hard to shock them. I got punished, in the sense that they're really big Coldplay fans.”
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“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.”
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“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
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“If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.”
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“History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.”
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“Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.”
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“I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.”
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“It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.”
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“All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.”
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“In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism.”
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“Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.”
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“In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.”
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“When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.”
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“I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.”
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“I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.”
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“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”
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“Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.”
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“The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in the South, founded in 1818 by a group of men including Morris Brown, a prominent pastor, and Denmark Vesey, who would go on to lead a large, yet failed, slave revolt in Charleston.”
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“Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.”
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“Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.”
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“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”
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“Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.”
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“History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.”
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“There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.”
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“The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.”
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“I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican or a conservative, the election of Trump is a national tragedy for multiple reasons. It will go down as one of the worst tragedies in American history. But he's not a dictator. This happened because we either allowed it or voted for it.”
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“Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.”
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“Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.”
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“If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.”
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“We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.”
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“Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.”
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“God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.”
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“When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then.”
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“You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.”
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“My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.”
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“We can start looking for ways to preserve our heritage outside lazily defending a flag with history steeped in racism and treason.”
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“As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.”
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“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
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“History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.”
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“There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.”
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“My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.”
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“Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.”
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“I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.”
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“There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.”
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“I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.”
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“The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'”
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“I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.”
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“My mum and dad teach, and all my brothers and sisters have been in 'Riverdance' and so forth. So I was forced to become a dancer; it's part of my family history.”
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“If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.”
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“If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.”
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“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
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“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”
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“If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.”
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“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”
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“If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.”
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“The history of art is the history of revivals.”
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“American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.”
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“Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”
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“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
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“He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.”
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“Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.”
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“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
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“No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.”
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“The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.”
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“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.”
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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”
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“I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.”
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“There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.”
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“Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.”
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“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
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“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.”
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“Black history is American history.”
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“Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.”
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“Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.”
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“I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.”
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“In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.”
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“My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.”
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“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”
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“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”
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“You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.”
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“Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.”
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“The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.”
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“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.”
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“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
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“When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.”
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“What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?”
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“I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.”
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“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.”
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“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.”
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“If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.”
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“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.”
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“History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.”
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“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”
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“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
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“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”
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“I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.”
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“May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?”
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“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
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“History will treat me right.”
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“I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.”
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“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.”
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“'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.”
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“NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.”
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“The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.”
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“With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.”
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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.”
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“Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.”
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“The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.”
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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
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“Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.”
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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
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“Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and when looking at history.”
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“Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.”
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“We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?”
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“But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.”
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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
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“According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.”
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“The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.”
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“We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.”
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“I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.”
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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
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“History proves… that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.”
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“We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.”
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“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
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“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
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“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”
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“History should be written as philosophy.”
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“I love architecture, I love buildings, I love history, buildings that have got a story to tell, and we can save the building along the way by turning it into a house. For me, as an architect, there's nothing better than that.”
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“Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.”
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“The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history… The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.”
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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
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“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”
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“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”
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“History is the science of things which are not repeated.”
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“The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.”
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“Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He's the president; this is history. But we seem to have come a long way since Ronald Reagan was regularly barked at by Sam Donaldson, almost literally, and the president shrugged it off.”
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“Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.”
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“It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.”
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“The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.”
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“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.”
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“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
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“Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.”
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“Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'”
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“Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.”
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“Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.”
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“If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.”
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“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”
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“If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.”
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“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”
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“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.”
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“Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.”
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“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
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“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”
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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”
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“The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.”
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“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
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“I just want to create my own history.”
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“To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.”
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“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.”
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“In Jewish history there are no coincidences.”
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“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”
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“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
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“If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.”
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“I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.”