History Quotes
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As for Israel, our friendship is rooted deeply in a shared history and shared values. Our commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable. And we will stand against attempts to single it out for criticism in international forums.
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A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
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Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.
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The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.
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History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.
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We live in the least ugly time in history.
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History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.
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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
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I can't wait to get out on the road with Michael McDonald and his band. There is some deep history between us, and it's always a great hang.
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I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.
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You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.
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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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I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not reverse Roe v. Wade, that we stand up against Citizens United, we stand up for the rights of people in the workplace, that we stand up and basically say: The Supreme Court should represent all of us. That's how I see the court, and the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on behalf of our rights as Americans.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
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Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...and the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.
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These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
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There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.
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Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did not always come from the poor, but from men who had known no oppression and became the leaders of the poor. The Arab nation has never been as class-conscious as other nations.
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Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.
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I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.
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History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
