History Quotes
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That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
Jonathan Harris
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History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
George H. W. Bush
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But I regret not having liked history.
Eva Herzigova
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I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.
Paula Abdul
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We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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President Trump has harnessed the fear and prejudice that have accompanied every wave of immigrants in United States history, and stoked those fears to further his own agenda.
Pramila Jayapal
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If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.
Archibald Geikie
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington
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There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
John Updike
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Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture?
Ernest Van den Haag
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That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course a year later that's not the way it is. Life moves on and the picture stays. That can be a wonderful idea to be a part of history and on the other hand, you think pictures have a life that they don't have.
Eugene Richards
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It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.
E. M. Forster
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.
Ernst Zundel
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin, then I'm so excited about that.
Yance Ford
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We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
Anita Hill
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The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.
C. Vann Woodward
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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.
John Joseph Lydon
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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And this is why studying the history of psi is important. People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for centuries. Human experiences that continue to be repeated throughout history and across cultures, are not due to ignorance or lack of critical thinking, and demand a serious explanation.
Dean Radin
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A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
Eliot Spitzer
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In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history.
Allison Schroeder