History Quotes
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The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.
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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.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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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.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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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.
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The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
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My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.
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I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man.
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It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.
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I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.
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Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.
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The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king. … Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
