History Quotes
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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.
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We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
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Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.
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History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
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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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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.
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History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
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Steven Spielberg is one of the most creative and successful directors and producers in the history of filmmaking. I have the highest respect both for him and for DreamWorks, and I look forward to many more years of continued collaboration.
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
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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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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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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 history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.
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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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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 think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.
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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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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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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.
