History Quotes
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Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.
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If you forget your history, you forget who you are.
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I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
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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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I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.
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A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.
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I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
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It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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I come from a community that has a lot of white kids, and I notice how, a lot of times, they don't understand our differences and how I come from a different culture and my ancestors are different and my history is different.
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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
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In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: 'to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.'
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There are these moments in the military where you're present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can't get blown away like everything else.
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We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
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I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.
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A lot of Americans do not have an appreciation for our history. They do not understand the Constitution, why we have these norms. And at some point, yes, the media has some responsibility, but so does the public.
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.
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History is a game played backwards only.
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
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For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.
