History Quotes
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Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
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Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
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During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous 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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We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Albert Einstein. I actually think every person can make a difference.
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We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
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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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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
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Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?
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It's very important to know the history and region going into it.
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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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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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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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You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
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History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
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History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
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The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches tend to be rather soft on political issues. T.D. Jakes doesn't take a major stand on political issues. Creflo Dollar certainly doesn't.
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Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
