History Quotes
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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's very important to know the history and region going into it.
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The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.
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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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The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.
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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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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
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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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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
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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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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
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Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
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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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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
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History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
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History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
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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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I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.
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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
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Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.
