History Quotes
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I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.
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If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
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Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf.
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Learning is the engine of practice, and practice is the history of that learning.
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I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.
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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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When I grew up, we didn't even talk about being gay. I didn't even hear the word lesbian when I was little. So to me, that's such huge progress to see everyone wanting to be on the right side of transgender history.
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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
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Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.
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The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.
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Voters, like history, are under no obligation to make sense.
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Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
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I'm connected to a Wesley Snipes, and I'm connected to Giancarlo Esposito because of the history of films that we've all been a part of with Spike Lee.
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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.
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Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.
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History works itself out in the living.
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New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.
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History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
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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.
