History Quotes
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The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.
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In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
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It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.
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The truth is, few people put up with emotional abuse as an adult unless they were abused as a child. And nearly every person who becomes emotionally abusive has a history of such abuse in childhood.
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History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
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How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.
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History is time that won't quit.
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But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.
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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.
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But I regret not having liked history.
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Policies are key and understanding what history shows us is as pivotal as ever.
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Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
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Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
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We as young men need just one of our peers to stand up and trust his God completely and without reserve. We need just one who will start climbing the rugged mountain cliffs in the direction of his King. We need just one to hear the call of the wild, to charge the fields of Bannockburn and fight for something that really matters. I appeal to you, as a young man, to consider that throughout history, it has often been when one young man stood up to be counted that the course of a nation was forever altered.
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Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
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The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!
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History is a myth that men agree to believe.
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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.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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And that said, this issues of comfort women is important for reopening a conversation in both Japan and in Korea and on their respective understandings of history. Policymakers are going to be trumpeting this deal, but you know, as of now, we just don't know whether the women themselves who are actually victims will think this agreement is enough.
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The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
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We ask you therefore, not to judge us or think of us in terms of what we were -- or even of what we are - but rather to think of us in terms of history and what we will be tomorrow.
