History Quotes
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
David Suzuki
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History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the bottom.
Chris Gabrieli
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I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something
Zach Braff
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Both my father and I remodeled our homes but were quite careful about preserving the history and unique character of the community.
Peter Sperling
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Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!
Hillary Clinton
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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.
Dave Anderson
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A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.
H. G. Wells
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Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.
Javier Perez de Cuellar
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
C.P. Snow
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Make no mistake, it is precisely our moral authority that is our greatest source of strength, and it is precisely our moral authority that has been recklessly put at risk by the cheap calculations and mean compromises of conscience wagered with history by this willful president.
Al Gore
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Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.
Blake Shelton
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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
William Cowper
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George Eliot
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I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
Max von Sydow
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Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.
David Grann
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If we are to survive the Atomic Age, we must have something to live by, to live on, and to live for. We must stand aside from the world's conspiracy of fear and hate and grasp once more the great monosyllables of life: faith, hope and love. Men must live by these if they live at all under the crushing weight of history.
O. P. Kretzmann
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We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
Haile Selassie
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I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.
Pete Sampras
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
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Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
Phyllis Schlafly
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We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.
Rachel Carson
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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
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It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.
Colm Meaney