History Quotes
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'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
Isaac Asimov -
It just worries me that if we start trying to erase history that we can learn from, where does that end? Do you start taking away books people find offensive? It's just a path that seems very dangerous to me in this country.
Luther Strange
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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
Javier Bardem -
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
Henry Ward Beecher -
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Enoch Powell -
It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
Mike Tyson -
Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
Peter Ackroyd -
For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.
Chuck Palahniuk -
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
J. D. Salinger -
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
Carl Andre -
In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time, everyone had got the same vote. It's been very interesting finding that.
Zach McGowan -
John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.
Lester Bangs
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From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
Donald Kagan -
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem.. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.
Ken Wilber -
For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.
Leon Trotsky -
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
George Crumb -
As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.
Barack Obama -
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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Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
Joe Torre -
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.
Barack Obama -
There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
Kevin Young -
Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. 'Communities of Practice' are groups of people who share a concern (domain) or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice) as they interact regularly (community).
Etienne Wenger