History Quotes
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Oscar Wilde
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There's a lot going on in the world that's very disturbing: rewriting the Holocaust; pseudo-historians rewriting history itself. And we're dealing with a terrorist mentality that involves whole nations.
Joel Grey
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History is on the side of the regulators.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
Lewis H. Lapham
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The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
Brian Tracy
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
Oren Peli
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If we are weak, our country will be in jeopardy. It is the living lesson of human history of the rise and fall of nations. In order for a country not to fall, it must cultivate its own strength.
Park Chung-hee
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
J. William Fulbright
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Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
Gary North
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My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
Candace Camp
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
F. Sionil Jose
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Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.
Martin Jacques
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The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
Elizabeth Warren
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
G. Edward Griffin
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I'm interested in history.
Jiang Wen
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That has never been heard of in the history of television. It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. So what takes most shows eight years to do, we do in a year
Tyler Perry