History Quotes
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only been eligible to take the throne if they had no brothers. If there was a boy in the family, no matter where he came in the order of birth, he leapfrogged his sisters to take the title.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
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We're always doing a lot of user studies on health and safety. We take it super seriously. But if you look back at the history of most new big technology breakthroughs, there is some element of controversy around what impact is it going to have.
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Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
