History Quotes
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The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.
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When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
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I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.
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Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.
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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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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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Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.
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Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect.
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There's a lot of history here. In terms of Asians in this country, you have a big influx after the Cultural Revolution, a big influx after the Korean War, a big influx after the Vietnam War.
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.
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The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.
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I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
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It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
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I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.
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But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
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I cannot stand no wack MC. So step back if you please, And don't test me, you're history.
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I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
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Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.
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I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.
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Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
