History Quotes
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
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It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.
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Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
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There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it's a film that wasn't as successful as you thought it would be, I've never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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Mr. President, there comes to a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now. And I will not let the PATRIOT Act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.
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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
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In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
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Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history - James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy.
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
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The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
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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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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
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The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.
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Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.
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Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.
