History Quotes
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I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
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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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Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
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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.
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I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.
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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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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
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The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.
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I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
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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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'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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History moves in contradictions. The skeleton of historic existence, the economic structure of society, also develops in contradictions. Forms eternally follow forms. Everything has only a passing being. The dynamic force of life creates the new over and over again — such is the law inherent in reality.
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The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.
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Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.
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We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.
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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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At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.
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The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided and facilitated by presidents and their administrations.
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Ballet is certainly appreciated in New York, but it has been a part of the Russian culture, history and heritage for hundreds of years, so it's much more instilled in the Russian blood.