History Quotes
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
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I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.
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The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
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Like practically everyone who grew up in Miami, I knew little about its history. We were more worried about mangoes falling on our cars.
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We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
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i keep drinking the ink from my penand i'm balancing history books up on my headbut it all boils down to one quotable phraseif you love something give it away
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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
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China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
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But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
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I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative, I'm in first place, I want to run as a Republican and I think I'll get the nomination... Hillary Clinton is easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. She's going to be beaten and I'm the one to beat her.
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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
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I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.
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As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity.
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Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
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The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.
