History Quotes
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If you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.
Paul Krugman
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I'm fundamentally conservative.
Laurie Graham
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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
Claude Lanzmann
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
Liev Schreiber
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I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own history, its own characteristic, but they are all important.
Neymar
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History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process.
Jostein Gaarder
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We have to count. I want to be part of history. I want a Wikipedia page. I want Google hits. I don’t want to be just a living organism that comes and goes and leaves no trace on this planet.
Douglas Coupland
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I grew up being obsessed with old Hollywood and loving the history, what's behind the scenes, and what people don't know.
Lily Collins
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Philosophy is in history, and is never independent of historical discourse. But for the tacit symbolism of life it substitutes, in principle, a conscious symbolism; for a latent meaning, one that is manifest. It is never content to accept its historical situation. It changes this situation by revealing it to itself.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?
Kevin McCloud
