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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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.
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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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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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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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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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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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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
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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 many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower-bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.
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But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
