History Quotes
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Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.
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This is a very fickle and faithless generation.
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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
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I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.
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Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.
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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history.
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I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the impact of racism.
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I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.
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Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.
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It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
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A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
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So those of us who believe in democracy, we need to speak out forcefully, because both the facts and history, I believe, are on our side. That doesn’t mean democracies are without flaws. It does mean that the cure for what ails our democracies is greater engagement by our citizens - not less.
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I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
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Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history.
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History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.
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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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Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
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I like work, I like song writing, and I like the history of Atlantic Records. They've sat in the studio with so many artists - like Ray Charles, for example - and created something amazing. As a label, they seem to be great at growing bands rather than telling you how to do it.
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It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.
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I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.
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The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.
