History Quotes
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The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway - the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.
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History is merely gossip.
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'I gather you were all too busy killing each other.''That’s a fairly reductive summary of our history, but I don’t suppose it’s too far from the truth.'
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So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
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When we started out we got a lot of positive press around the single 'Step Into My World', and a lot of Radio play. The single did really well, so we were in the spotlight straight away. I obviously had my history with Ride, but I didn't want to talk about that, so all the interviews centred around how I'd had these auditions and found the band members that way. I think people felt like that was not 'for real' enough or something.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer.
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If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
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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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Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
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Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
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A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
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To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.
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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
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Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.
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In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.
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I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.
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People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
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Tennis has given me so many opportunities, and I feel very lucky to have achieved whatever I have, especially coming from a country that does not have a great history in the game.
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All those events in history were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
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'Consigned to everlasting fire,' said Nicholas in a faint voice. He had gone white as chalk.'No, you medieval imbecile!' Edward clenched his fists. 'You still have no grasp of the truth, have you? Leave your angels and devils in the trash of history, where they belong.'
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So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.
