History Quotes
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As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.
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History is subjective. History is alterable. History is, finally, little more than modeling clay in a very warm room.
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Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.
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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
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Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
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When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me.
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When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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We live in the least ugly time in history.
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A shared history is valuable but maybe those two weren't right for each other and they know it.
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I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.
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It's quite unbelievable that Charlie Crist is getting away with this reinvention of himself - this rewriting of history for blatantly political purposes. Other than his gender, the guy has flip-flopped on everything, and I don't put that past him either.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
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History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.
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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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History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
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Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
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History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.
