History Quotes
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Hillary Clinton is now driving from New York to Iowa. It's been called the least-exciting spring break trip in history.
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In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of human nature.
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In the end, young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.
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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
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Live in the moment. Moments make history.
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All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
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In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history.
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Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
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Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
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There's a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn't give you all the ingredients you need. No story will quite fulfill that three-act structure.
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If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
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We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.
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Replying to the question of the presenter: 'where did the name 'Sex Pistols' come from, who thought this name up?' Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.
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If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.
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History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
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There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.
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History is always important and I don't think you should ever kick in this league. I agree that when you do, you pay the price for it, but this is an extreme price. Using your skate is a problem, no question.
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Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.
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You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.
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When you look at turning points in history… at people who stand at the intersection of history, I noticed that you always find people with grit. They have passion. They have persistence. They have a big goal, and they refuse to allow other people or forces around them to derail them.
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The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
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If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
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We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
