History Quotes
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Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
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TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below serving those up above! LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors! TODD: How gratifying for once to know BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!
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Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
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The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.
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We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.
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I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.
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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.
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Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
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One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.
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The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
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The philosopher will ask himself … if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.
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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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One's political ideology is inextricable from one's view of 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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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors.
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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
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The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.
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History is the invention of historians.
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It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.
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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
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The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.
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Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
