History Quotes
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The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.
Eduard Bernstein -
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
Andrew Hoberek
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Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles
Og Mandino -
God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.
Walter Brueggemann -
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.
Eric Foner -
Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.
Megan Smith -
The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
Marie Brennan -
If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.
Eric Schmidt
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I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
Colin Quinn -
I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.
John Roger Stephens -
There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.
Lidia Bastianich -
In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
Silvio Berlusconi -
What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.
Clarence Francis -
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
Chuck Hagel
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Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of slavery is such a base impulse. It's like, "I'm going to kidnap you and then you're going to do everything I want." Like, what? And then there's the historical aspect. It had a huge effect on human history.
Neal Brennan -
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.
C. Vann Woodward -
The fullness of grace can transform the human heart and enable it to do something so great as to change the course of human history.
Pope Francis -
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
Lech Walesa -
My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's. I listen a lot further back in the whole history of music. It's not just pop music of the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years. I'm listening to stuff from hundreds of years ago as well, because you can learn from everything.
Elvis Costello -
Poetry is the history of the human heart, and it continues to record the history of human emotion, whether it's celebration or grief or whatever it may be.
William Collins
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If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.
Peter Zumthor -
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
William James -
Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an American audience, and that is that the Islamic world has a very strong sense of history. In the Muslim world, history is important and their knowledge of history is not always accurate but is very detailed. There is a strong historical sense in the Muslim world, a feeling for the history of Islam from the time of the Prophet until the present day.
Bernard Lewis -
It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply and try to get a life out of that.
Josh Holloway