History Quotes
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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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You live through that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. . . . What you are is an expression of History.
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For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
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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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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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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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I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.
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I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
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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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History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
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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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This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.
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History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.
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The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
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History is as much an art as a science.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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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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As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.
