History Quotes
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I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.
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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth
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And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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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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I think, unfortunately, this is going to go down in history as one of the great sporting gaffes of all time.
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Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.
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Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
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The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.
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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
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As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.
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When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
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There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
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With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.
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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
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I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.
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Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.
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Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.
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The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.
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It is vital now to see this moment for what it is. This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt, but it is a moment for hope and ambition for Britain. A time not to fight against the tide of history, but to take that tide at the flood, and sail on to fortune.
