History Quotes
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The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
Jill Lepore
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
Oliver Stone
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Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
Matt Mullenweg
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Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
Jamie Johnson
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I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.
Jason Alexander
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History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
David Weinberger
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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.
Joe Jamail
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We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.
Robert Frost
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Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions.
John McCain
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What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.
Arthur Ransome
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My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.
Carol Berg
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Some of the greatest stars in the history of football have been under contract with Puma.
Jochen Zeitz
