Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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.
Karl Marx
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
Larry Kramer
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Fidel Castro
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
Olivia d'Abo
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Raekwon
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
Kara Walker
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Bao Dai
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
J. William Fulbright
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When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
T. B. Joshua
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History is more interesting than most people think.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
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The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
Bayard Taylor
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Jack Ma
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I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
Hannah Ware
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
Oliver Stone
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On the stage on which we are observing it, - Universal History - Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity-a waste of precious time and effort.
Tad Williams
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Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John Paul II had the distinction of naming 482 saints, more than all of his predecessors combined.
Chris Matthews
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The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth.
Jack McDevitt
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After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit.
Holly Hunter
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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
Miguel de Unamuno