History Quotes
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible. A machine produced by more than three hundred thousand Americans was circling the moon with three human beings aboard for the first time in history.
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.
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You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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History shows that the thinkers who mounted on the top of the ladder of questions, who set their foot on the last rung, that of the absurd, have bequeathed to posterity only an example of sterility.
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I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.
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I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that and, at the same time, to say that feminism is not the western invention, that my great-grandmother in what is now south-western Nigeria is feminist.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
