History Quotes
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
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The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history.
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The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
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All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
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American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.
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Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.
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Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.
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... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.
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No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
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I don't understand what the president's Donald Trump position is on Russia. But I can tell you what my position is on Russia: Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors, and Vladimir Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.
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Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
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History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.
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There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.
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Give the course that these hearings have followed ... and given the special relationship between the legislative and executive branches embodied in our Constitution and our nation's history, we do not believe that it would be appropriate for the president to appear before the committee.
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I'm a huge sci-fi geek, and I also really get into all of the alien shows on the History Channel where you see air force pilots talking about UFOs - I love that stuff.
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You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
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When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.
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Nothing fundamental separates the course of human history from the course of physical history.
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With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
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From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips. If so, we can also understand the whole of history as a process of improving the efficiency of this system through four basic methods:
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To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.
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My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.
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you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.
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We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.
