History Quotes
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The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
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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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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
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History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.
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What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
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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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Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.
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History is a myth that men agree to believe.
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THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.
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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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Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
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If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.
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People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.
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Beyonce is a beautiful, elegant woman who is also a wonderful dancer. And her voice is sublime. Just like her husband, Jay-Z, Beyonce has real talent. They are both the kind of truly great artist who will be remembered by history. Their child will be lucky to have such talented parents.
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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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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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My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
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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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Throughout history, females have picked providers for mates. Males pick anything.
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The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.
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In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution.
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The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
