History Quotes
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If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I'd been cursed. And I've never had that feeling.
John Madden
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The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
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The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.
Anthony Gregory
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I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.
Elia Suleiman
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How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.
Edward Feser
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One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
Aristotle
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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E. Gladstone
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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
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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.
Phil Klay
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That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
William McKinley
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Anthony Clifford Grayling
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History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Jared Diamond
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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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This is a milestone event in the history of aerospace. For the first time in all of space flight, a facility is now available for regularly scheduled, private space launches. Thanks to the vision of the State of New Mexico, as well as the aerospace capabilities provided by our company, the 'final frontier' is now open to everyone.
Eric Knight
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History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
Etienne Gilson
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Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.
Alice Dreger
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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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.
Barack Obama
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Phil Anselmo Pantera
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Are you aware that was the longest and largest criminal case in the history of Los Angeles County?
Thomas Mesereau