History Quotes
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History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.
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It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.
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Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
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Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back.
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The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.
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Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty - even in old age - an embodiment of rock and roll history.
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The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
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For three days this summer, people will come to Chicago to witness musical history in real time.
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In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.
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I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.
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Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.
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In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around.
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For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.
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Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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We can, in fact, relive the history of taste in our own lives, the way embryos are supposed to go through the history of the evolution of a species.
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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
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In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue, the highway, the linkage between people, not the separation. And that's the history of Canada: our rivers and lakes were our highways.
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I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.
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Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
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Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
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Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'
