History Quotes
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You appear to know more of my private history than I have the pleasure of knowing of yours. Pray, sir, may I—but, bless me! are you unwell?” I asked this in some alarm, because the little man was rolling about in his seat, holding his sides, and growing very red in the face.
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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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Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
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In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
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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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Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
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It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called "educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.
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History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
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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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We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.
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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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History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
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Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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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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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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This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'
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The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.
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Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy.
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There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.
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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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The history of a people are found in its songs.
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Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
