History Quotes
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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
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Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought.
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Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
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History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
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I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
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Half the things you've been taught in school are just convenient fictions. History is a puppet show for childish minds.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
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What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
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As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.
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I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes.
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As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.
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History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
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In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
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The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.
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One of the challenges obviously with doing an accent from a time period early in history is that there aren't recordings. You would never really get the opportunity to hear exactly what you were shooting for.
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In ten to twenty years, when people write the history of Covid-19, I want them to write that Zoom did the right thing for the world.
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Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.
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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
