History Quotes
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If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.
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History is not history unless it is the truth.
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America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
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The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.
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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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If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
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History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
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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 must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.
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The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END
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Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
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Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.
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History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.
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A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
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There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.
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Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
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History works itself out in the living.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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These people in the North-east of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by honourable gentlemen below the gangway i.e. the Irish Nationalist Party.
