History Quotes
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A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.
Brett Kavanaugh
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By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
David Attenborough
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We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.
Jimmy Buffett
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I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.
Amber Heard
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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he
is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
Vladimir Lenin
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Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Battle Creek has such a rich history of entrepreneurs and invention, and it seems some of that spirit had died down. I'd like to see it back.
Charles Rosen
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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Muhammad Ali
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla
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A trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.
Valerie Martin
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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
Annie Leibovitz
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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II
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The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the individual person first in the political scheme of things and made the legitimacy of governments and ruling classes contingent on their success at preserving individual rights.
Alan Bock
