History Quotes
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A turning point in modern history.
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I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
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I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.
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Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.
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I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?
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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
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No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.
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This by no means the last word on the Chinese in America. This is my personal interpretation of the 150-year epic history of Chinese in this country.
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Film music has a great history of composers and performers.
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I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
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The longest suicide note in history.
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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
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… the dogma that History is just 'one damned thing after another....'
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There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
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Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.
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What the eye is to the lover — that particular, ordinary eye he or she is born with - language - whatever language history has made his or her mother-tongue — is to the patriot. Through that language, encountered at mother's knee and parted with only at the grave, pasts are restored, fellowships are imagined, and futures dreamed.
