History Quotes
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Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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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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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
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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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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
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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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What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.
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But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.
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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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I don't really believe in trying to erase every Woody Allen movie from history. For one thing, that's kind of unfair to all the people who worked on those movies or albums or whatever it is. What did they do wrong to have their work erased from culture?
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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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I know my 'Archie' history.
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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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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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History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
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... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
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Legend remains victorious in spite of 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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Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
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Steven Spielberg is one of the most creative and successful directors and producers in the history of filmmaking. I have the highest respect both for him and for DreamWorks, and I look forward to many more years of continued collaboration.
