History Quotes
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Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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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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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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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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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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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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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.
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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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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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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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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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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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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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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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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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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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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
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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.
