History Quotes
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History is merely gossip.
Oscar Wilde -
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.
Anand Giridharadas -
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.
Ariel Dorfman -
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
Lion Feuchtwanger -
I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.
Duff Goldman -
The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
Dennis Prager -
All those events in history were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
Marcus Aurelius
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We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.
Doug Aitken -
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott -
There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
Joe Biden -
I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.
Andrea Martin -
In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.
Janet Yellen -
My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.
Debbie Reynolds
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I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament.
Manmohan Singh -
I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no quantifiable history of me existing as a transwoman. Credit and background checks automatically assumed I was committing fraud.
Chelsea Manning -
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
Allan Sherman -
I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.
Matt Bomer -
The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Revolution, in history, is like the doctor assisting at the birth of a new life, who will not use forceps unless necessary, but who will use them unhesitatingly every time labor requires them. It is a labor bringing the hope of a better life to the enslaved and exploited masses.
Che Guevara -
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix Rohatyn -
It felt great knowing that I got to help the winningest class in Villanova history, to be able to be a part of that. It's something special.
Jalen Brunson -
Disrespect, the feeling that what one has to offer in life has been rejected, the feeling that one has joined history's losers can make us as human beings more vulnerable to evil.
Al Gore