History Quotes
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For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
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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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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
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If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.
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History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
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History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.
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“Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being.”
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I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
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Voters, like history, are under no obligation to make sense.
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When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved thinking, but science seemed to be all about memorizing facts and doing mindless calculations.
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This is the best few tens of billions years in the history of the universe to do cosmology.
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It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.
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Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.
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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
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Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.
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During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists.
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Ted and I had history,” Jake said. “We were in love. This hurts all the time. I never stop thinking about how much this hurts.” Zoe stretched out her arms and pretended to play a goddamn violin.
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It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like the history and meaning of all we have been through has been trashed.
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The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.
