History Quotes
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I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
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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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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
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Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.
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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
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History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.
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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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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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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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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
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I know my 'Archie' history.
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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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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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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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History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.
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History is a ghost story.
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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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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.
