History Quotes
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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The past does not influence me; I influence it.
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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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Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.
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I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
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Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.
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History is not history unless it is the truth.
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No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
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Bolton Wanderers is a fantastic football club with an incredible history and fanbase and this is a really exciting opportunity for us all.
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In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . but the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.
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Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
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Learning is the engine of practice, and practice is the history of that learning.
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If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.
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I think that as my kids grow up and hit milestones that spark emotion for myself in my own history, it will always trigger personal feelings from those times - whether good or bad - and I definitely want to develop the tools I need to keep the immediacy of those negative emotions in the past.
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I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that.
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This is our turn at the wheel, and history will judge us based on how we handle it. Decline is a choice, but so is liberty.
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France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
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This is a milestone event in the history of aerospace. For the first time in all of space flight, a facility is now available for regularly scheduled, private space launches. Thanks to the vision of the State of New Mexico, as well as the aerospace capabilities provided by our company, the 'final frontier' is now open to everyone.
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That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us the future cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us the past cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.
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I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.
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History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
