James J. Hill Quotes
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
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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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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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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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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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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
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Skepticism is history's bedfellow.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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La vieillerie poétique avait une bonne part dans mon alchimie du verbe.
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If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
