History Quotes
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Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.
Adam Richman
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I think we do have cyclic changes in weather, and I think that's been throughout the course of history.
Joni Ernst
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The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
Bruce Feiler
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Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding. If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle.
Olympia Snowe
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India had entertained throughout its history a world vision. Our sages and seers had thought in terms of the happiness of the whole of humanity. And Jawaharlal Nehru had designed a foreign policy for India with a world outlook. We have a role to play in the world and a message to give to the world. We can do that effectively only if we are united and strong and in peace and friendship with our neighbours.
K. R. Narayanan
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History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.
Edward Hallett Carr
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The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.
Clarence Darrow
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I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.
Mario Testino
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And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educational reasons to keep children occupied for a given number of years. It has always been so and always will be.
Hermann Hesse
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Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
Kirstie Alley
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No culture in human history ever suffered because its people became too reasonable or too desirous of having evidence in defense of their core beliefs.
Sam Harris
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I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.
John Cameron Mitchell
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He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
Cormac McCarthy
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In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
Cory Booker
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The European leagues have been there a long time, the coaches have been there, the clubs have been there, there's history to the teams. There's already that football support culture.
Christen Press
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The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
Edward M. Lerner
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In less than a year, roughly one third of our senior management team has changed, we are taking large amounts of cost out of the company, faster than ever in the history of Kodak.
George Fisher
Cannibal Corpse
