History Quotes
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I don’t see anyone better than me. No player does things that I cannot do myself, but I see things others can’t do. There’s no more complete player than me. I’m the best player in history - in the good and the bad moments.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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History of the New York Times, 1851-1921. Contributors: Elmer Davis - author. Publisher: New York Times.
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Students’ role doesn’t end in the classroom. Student-led movements have always been a part in changing history and fulfilling peoples’ dreams of achieving freedom and dignity interview after her speech
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Its objectives to suggest new paths for the study of European economic history rather than fit either of these standard formats. It is more than anything an agenda for new research.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
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Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
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Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
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Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.
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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
