History Quotes
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Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
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Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really did something for me.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
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I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.
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That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?
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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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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of bioethics, because bioethicists are the people who increasingly set up and justify the systems we patient advocates have to fight.
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Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.
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This is wonderful because there is math correlation, science correlation and history correlation.
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There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy.
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As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned. They should have a little bit of honor. This is supposed to be rock 'n' roll. This is supposed to be friendly. This is like going through the trenches together.
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History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
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I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
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Literature is the history of the soul.
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So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
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For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.
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Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
