History Quotes
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Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
Andrew Weil
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The infectious diseases that regularly visited crowded Eurasian societies, and to which many Eurasians consequently developed immune or genetic resistance, included all of history's most lethal killers: smallpox, measles, influenza, plague, tuberculosis, typhus, cholera, malaria, and others.
Jared Diamond
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We live in the greatest country in the history of mankind every single day.
Burgess Owens
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Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.
Mariella Frostrup
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone!In whose capacious all-embracing leavesThe very marrow of tradition 's shown;And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
Charles Lamb
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I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.
Persis Khambatta
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However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history - the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur - the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.
Kenneth Clark
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
Victor Hugo
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We liked the title for itself, and although the magazine was then in sad shape, it had seen great days and would give us a ready-made history.
Dennis Flanagan
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If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.
Austan Goolsbee
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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
Jerry Saltz
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Your deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without equal in the history of mankind. How can we (the German people) ever thank you?
Leni Riefenstahl
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The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war.
Burgess Owens
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I think Pussy Riot is amazing. I'm honored that they were inspired by riot grrl, and obviously they're making history around the world.
Corin Tucker
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We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
John Lahr
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I don't know where this is coming from. What's wrong with my hair? I'm like 'I just made history and people are focused on my hair?' It can be bald or short, it doesn't matter about my hair. Nothing is going to change. I'm going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it.
Gabby Douglas
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Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
Douglas Wilder
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I am the bastard child of an unholy union between fascism and Stalinism. I am the contemporary of a strange twilight when the clouds above are dissolving amid the clash of arms and the cries of the tortured. The only revolution I know, the one which may grant notoriety to this century, is the Nazi plague and red fascism. Hitler did not die in Berlin. Conqueror of his conquerors, he won the war in the stormy night into which he plunged Europe. Stalin did not die in Moscow nor at the Twentieth Congress. He is here among us, a stowaway in the history that he still haunts and bends to his mad will. You say the world is doing well? It's certain in any case that it keeps on going, since it isn't changing. But never before has the will to death become so nakedly and cynically unleashed. For the first time the gods have left us, no doubt weary of wandering on the plain of ashes where we have made our home. And I am writing in an age of Barbarism which is already, silently, remaking the world of men.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force - but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.
Michael Nesmith
The Monkees
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God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.
Adolf Hitler
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If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.
David Oyelowo
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I think by embracing your heritage and your history, it just serves you so much more, and you become a deeper and more powerful person by embracing them.
Emily Kuroda
