History Quotes
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Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.
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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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Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
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Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become a symbol of the yearning of America in the 1920s.
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I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
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I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy, which is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential.
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China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.
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Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.
Colson Whitehead
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The fullness of grace can transform the human heart and enable it to do something so great as to change the course of human history.
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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.
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I went into boxing, and I'm bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible.
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Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
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The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.
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The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
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It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.
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You always need a textural landscape. I think that's what fashion is about, and I think when you come to a brand and you're trying to re-instill its history, the history only comes through being personal.
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Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
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Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.
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History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
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The internet has grown so tremendously fast in our society. It is the fastest communications technology in the history of the world. (It) grew from almost a dead stop in 1995 to having 80 million users in the United States alone in five years. Nothing has grown that fast.
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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
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You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.
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There's never been someone like me in history - a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.
