History Quotes
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In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
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I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.
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In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history.
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The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.
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He was really our last connection to a bygone time in the history of New Orleans.
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In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.
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We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
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History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors.
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We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.
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History belongs to the intercessors
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When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved thinking, but science seemed to be all about memorizing facts and doing mindless calculations.
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The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.
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Anyone can see how if a feared tax hike doesn't happen, that's a positive factor. But even if tax hikes happen as feared, vast history tells me it doesn't have to have the big bad impact folks fear. And fear of a false factor is always bullish.
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If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
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The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
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When I look back, some of the greatest people in the history of the world have created things where paths have never been with such resiliency.
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History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
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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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All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.
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When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.
