History Quotes
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
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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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When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
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Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.
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Every single cell in each person's body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality.
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History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.
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Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
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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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A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.
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There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.
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The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
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Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.
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The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
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I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
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Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
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History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
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The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.
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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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History has proven that when the people of Israel unite under a serious and responsible leadership, we know how to overcome all challenges and overcome all obstacles.
