History Quotes
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
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This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'
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The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.
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From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.
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History is sympathetic to its authors.
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
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Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.
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The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
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History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.
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This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.
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History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.
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War makes rattling good history.
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.
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These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
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In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.
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The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.
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We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.
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The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
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Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl - so many people have played there; at least, all of my heroes have.
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The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.
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Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
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France has done more for even English history than England has.
