History Quotes
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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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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
Larry Kramer
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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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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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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
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Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
Aaron Klein
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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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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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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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History is on the side of the regulators.
Ha-Joon Chang
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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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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
G. Edward Griffin
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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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I'm interested in history.
Jiang Wen
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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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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
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
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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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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian
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I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.
Joel Salatin
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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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The history of the Romanovs is an Elizabethan tragedy that lasts for three centuries. Its keynote is cruelty, a barbaric, pointless kind of cruelty that has always been common in the East, but that came to Europe only recently, in the time of Hitler.
Colin Wilson