History Quotes
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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.
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History belongs to the intercessors
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Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.
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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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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 do get pissed off when I'm at some gay event, and there's a 25-year-old, and he has no idea who I am. And I say, 'You need to know more about your gay history, boy.' I think the younger generation takes it a little bit for granted.
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In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.
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I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.
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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.
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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.
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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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I think music is best left for the listener to experience for themselves. My own description of it is only based on my own history, my own musical references and perspective. I like to avoid coloring things for people too much.
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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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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.
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In progressive societies the concentration of wealth may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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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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It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
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The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
