George Santayana Quotes
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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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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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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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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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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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
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Historically, there hasn't been a significant correlation between gold prices and U.S. elections. Furthermore, history has shown that gold prices tend to fall just before U.S. elections and rise immediately after, and this goes on until the next election.
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And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.
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To all of you who served in Iraq, we saw your heroism in pushing out a dictator whose brutality must be condemned, never praised. In defeating an insurgency. In giving the Iraqi people a chance. And no matter what has happened since, your valor in the deserts, in fierce urban combat, will be honored in the annals of military history.
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History is at once freedom and necessity.
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
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But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
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I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.
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Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
