History Quotes
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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
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All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Brazil Nut-hued tan to Monty Hall's oversized lamb chop sideburns. As the host of IFC's new comedy game show 'Bunk,' I, too, have worked to develop a style signature by being the first man or woman in TV history to host every show in my bare feet!
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
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I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.
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My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
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History provides no precise guidelines.
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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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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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
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History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.
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If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
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I think it's time, not for the Washington Redskins to change their name but for the Democratic Party to change its name. Because all you have to do is go online and look up the history of the Democratic Party. It's one of oppressing African-Americans. It's one of supporting slavery and the horrors that occurred in the United States.
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I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
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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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The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
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As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.
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What man is, only history tells.
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Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
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The greatest single portfolio of songs ever written by any one person in the history of country music.
