History Quotes
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The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.
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Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.
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We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history
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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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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective 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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I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.
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Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth.
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There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments.
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I'm connected to a Wesley Snipes, and I'm connected to Giancarlo Esposito because of the history of films that we've all been a part of with Spike Lee.
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...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.
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While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.
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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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When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.
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History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
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History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”
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I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can't remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it somewhere, and when I ask groups how many people know someone personally with a history of molestation, almost always, every hand in the room goes up.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.
