History Quotes
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I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?
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I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one.
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And certainly the history of the black-white relations in this country from the Civil War to the present unmistakably shows that as a people, America has never intended for blacks to be free. To this day, in the eyes of most white Americans, the black man remains subhuman.
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I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.
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I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
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Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.
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But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
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I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.
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I believe that the history of Fed policymaking is that, you know, there are times when we need to raise rates.
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I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.
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History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
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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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It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
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We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.
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Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
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In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
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For the vast majority of mankind's history, economic activity consisted of finding energy and using energy.
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Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.
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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
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I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
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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.
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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.
