History Quotes
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I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
Malorie Blackman
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Now, in the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the other could rain more devastation in several hours than has been wrought in all the wars of human history.
John F. Kennedy
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
Frank Waters
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos
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If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Mackenzie King
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.
Bill Haslam
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
Pat Conroy
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But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
Preston Brooks
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
Kate Williams
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The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.
John D'Agata
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
Hampton Sides
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
Gary Locke
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Its secondary career has been as a symbol of India. The prize piece of Indian heritage, it is seen to embody the country’s celebrated history and civilization...Elevated to the national symbol by outsiders, not until about 1900 was it accepted as such by Indians.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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Radio was always a fun, geeky thing to be a fan of - the history of radio, where it is, and where it's going - but it was really also a pretty easy job.
Elvis Duran
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
Rachel Kushner
