History Quotes
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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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As an actor, you have to have your history.
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
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Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective.
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I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist, till zeitgeist, the wind of the times, is blasted away by kamikaze, the wind of God.
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All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
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History belongs to the intercessors
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History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.
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As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. Art had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it.
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The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.
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Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.
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Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.
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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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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
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History is the memory of things said and done.
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You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
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At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.
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The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
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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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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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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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History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
