History Quotes
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The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
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Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
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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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Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.
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What you have witnessed since Christopher Hitchens’s opposition to the 1991 invasion of Iraq is something unique in natural history: the first ever metamorphosis of a butterfly into a slug.
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At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
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We needed a true leader. Sam has a history of making big plays and big shots. The guys have a great deal of respect for him. We're going to be a much better team.
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I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.
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'Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.'
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This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
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Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
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History is merely gossip.
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I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
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How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
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A dictionary is a reference book that lists the words of one or more languages, usually in alphabetical order, along with information about their spelling, pronunciation, grammatical status, meaning, history, and use.
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I always loved the Yorkshire members and was passionate about playing for the county, but the people who were running the club made it at times unbearable for me. The rulers had a history of doing what they wanted and sacking players seemingly on a whim.
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For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.
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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
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Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well, that is, it would be useful, if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice.
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A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.
