History Quotes
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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary) causes, the subject of natural history.
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Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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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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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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History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
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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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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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You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.
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In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.
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History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
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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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The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.
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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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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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History is the new poetry.
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The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.
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One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
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The internet has grown so tremendously fast in our society. It is the fastest communications technology in the history of the world. (It) grew from almost a dead stop in 1995 to having 80 million users in the United States alone in five years. Nothing has grown that fast.
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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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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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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
