History Quotes
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All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself.
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Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.
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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
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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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Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
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History is the memory of things said and done.
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Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.
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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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It’s a cool area to be. It’s got a lot of history and, at the same time, there’s a lot of restaurants for me since I’m a terrible cook.
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
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My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.
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The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.' The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.
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History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors.
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We've had to develop a super-thick skin. We've been beaten up more than any band in history.
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Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.
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In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.
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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
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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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Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.
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The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.
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Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.
