History Quotes
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The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.
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History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.
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'Wicked' has been one of the biggest hits in Los Angeles theatre history, and we are thrilled that theatergoers here have embraced the musical and welcomed us so heartily.
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What is overlooked is the astonishing amount of history Hollywood has got right... For better or worse, nothing has been more influential in shaping our visions of the past than the commercial cinema.
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'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.
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Geography is history in place, history is geography in time.
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Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.
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If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.
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Battle Creek has such a rich history of entrepreneurs and invention, and it seems some of that spirit had died down. I'd like to see it back.
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The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history.
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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
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Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.
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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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The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.
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Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
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'Bamboozled' is the grassroots that will enlighten Americans from all backgrounds and political affiliations to the true history of the Democrat party and the facts about what liberal policies have done to our nation and communities of color.
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The history of skiing is important to me.
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The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.
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The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.
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The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
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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.
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I want to write for history, not for the moment.
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Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.
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A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.
