History Quotes
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One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
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The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
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Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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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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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
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I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.
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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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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
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One's political ideology is inextricable from one's view of history.
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In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.
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History is the memory of things said and done.
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
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In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
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It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.
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He was really our last connection to a bygone time in the history of New Orleans.
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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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It's very important to know the history and region going into it.
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History is the invention of historians.
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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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Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
