History Quotes
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When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.
Edward Hallowell
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When I look back, some of the greatest people in the history of the world have created things where paths have never been with such resiliency.
Joy Mangano
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The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.
Steven Heighton
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The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.
Barbara Marciniak
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
Will Durant
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History belongs to the intercessors
Walter Wink
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
William Hazlitt
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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
Eric Van Lustbader
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Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.
Nina Garcia
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.
Carlton J. H. Hayes
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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.
Eric Bolling
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs
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A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.
Catherynne M. Valente
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We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election, and, believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected. They're doing it to try to influence the election for Donald Trump. Now, maybe because he has praised Putin, maybe because he says he agrees with a lot of what Putin wants to do, maybe because he wants to do business in Moscow, I don't know the reasons.
Hillary Clinton
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
Thomas Carlyle
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The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.
Ernst Mach
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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.
Evan Bayh
