History Quotes
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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.
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This is the greatest act of budget consolidation in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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There is no one like Toto in history in that we were both successful as session musicians and also had a band that sold so many million records.
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Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line.
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And as Americans know from our history on our own old frontier, gun battles are caused by outlaws, and not by officers of the peace.
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I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
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It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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History is sympathetic to its authors.
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I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.
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I've always loved the club. Kaka was my role model when I was young, and my aim now is to go down in Milan history.
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That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.
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Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
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The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.
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To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.
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Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.
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I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to associate themselves with traditional denominations - very often they have no history. They have no institutional memory.
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My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
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You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.
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I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.
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History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
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Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
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We will do precisely what the British nation has done all through its history when it had its back to the wall — turn round and fight for the things it believes in, and that is what I shall do.
