History Quotes
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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.
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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
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I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.
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I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.
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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
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Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
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The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.
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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
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I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.
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There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
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History will judge societies and governments - and their institutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
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It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. ....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.
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I loved psychology and I loved history.
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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
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I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached.
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For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
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Hollywood in the 1930s is an incredible period of history. There are so many amazing stories about the stars and the studios at that time that you can't fit into one film.
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But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.
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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.
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Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.
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'Four sentences summarizing the lessons of History'
