History Quotes
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The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.
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Every choice has its history, so many moments of our existence are shoved into a corner, waiting for an outlet, and in the end the outlet arrives.
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The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.
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The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.
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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
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The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.
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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
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I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.
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History is about loops and continuums.
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History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
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As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. Art had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it.
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I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an America of perpetual adolescence. Our kids simply don't know what an adult is anymore - or how to become one. Many don't even see a reason to try. Perhaps more problematic, the older generations have forgotten that we need to plan to teach them. It's our fault more than it is theirs.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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As an actor, you have to have your history.
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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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We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.
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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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The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.
