History Quotes
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I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
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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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History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
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The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
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The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.
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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
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A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
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I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.
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History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
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As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.
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We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.
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There is a history in all men's lives.
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Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.
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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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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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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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Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.
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In Connecticut, we have a vibrant history of advocating to ensure our workers are treated fairly and given the rights and protections they deserve. Still, we need to do more to protect all American workers.
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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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Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.
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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
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In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.
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First of all, on a cinematic level, the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history.
