History Quotes
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
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I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.
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I thought Obama was in a position to do some things. I thought 2008 was a turning point in history, with him and the Wall Street crash happening at the same time, but you just learn that those entrenched powers were really entrenched; those decayed institutions were really decayed.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.
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No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Mythology contains a rich history of legendary weapons, most famously 'Excalibur,' weapons that could only be used by the pure of heart.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.
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Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings.
