History Quotes
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When we started, there were people who made fun of the music we made, danzon, cha-cha,‘That’s out of style, But still we have kept on going. It rescued all that history.
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Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
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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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In contemporary society the typical lady is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
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All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.
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History is the invention of historians.
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On Los Angeles: This city is a hundred years old but try and find some trace of its history. Every culture is swallowed up and spat out as a franchise. Taco Bell. Benihana of Tokyo. Numero Uno Pizza. Pup 'N' Taco. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Fast food sushi. Teriyaki Bowl.
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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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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 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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History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
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One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'
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Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
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You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.
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I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.
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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.
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I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.
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Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
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That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
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Throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.
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History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
