History Quotes
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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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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
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'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
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If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
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Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country.
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
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If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages.
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We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.
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I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.
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History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
