History Quotes
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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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Our memory reaches back through recorded history. The memory book lies open, and the hand still writes.
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Far more often than asking the question 'Is it true?' Children have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.
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The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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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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Politics is history in the making.
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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
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It's very important to know the history and region going into it.
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When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.
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It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
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I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
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If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
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History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.
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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
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The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.
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There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.
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In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.
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Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.
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The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
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It would seem I wouldn’t have written anything if I weren’t influenced by Canada’s history, its weather, the landscape, and its stories.
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Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.
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It's “Into Thin Air” there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.
