History Quotes
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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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I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.
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History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
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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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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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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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As an actor, you have to have your 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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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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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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History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.
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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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If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.
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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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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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History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
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One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
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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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By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister says that instead of the monarchy he would prefer an entirely Canadian institution, but he fails to recognize that the monarchy is as Canadian as the House of Commons itself.
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It's very important to know the history and region going into it.
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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.
