History Quotes
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I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
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I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.
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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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Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
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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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As an actor, you have to have your history.
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History is as much an art as a science.
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I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
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By burning through coal and oil deposits, humans are putting carbon back into the air that has been sequestered for tens—in most cases hundreds—of millions of years. In the process, we are running geologic history not only in reverse but at warp speed.
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I know my 'Archie' history.
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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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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
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It's very important to know the history and region going into it.
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In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.
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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
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History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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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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Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.
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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 Olympics have been an amazing part of Los Angeles' history. In many ways in 1932, they put us on the map when people didn't even know where Los Angeles was. In 1984, they were the first profitable Olympics of the modern era.
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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
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History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
