History Quotes
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There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.
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It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
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History can never be covered up.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.
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I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
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I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
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Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
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I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.
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History develops, art stands still.
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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.
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Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
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I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
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Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.
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The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.
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Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.
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I do see religions as a repository for human thought and culture. There's no connection with the time of Christ other than through Jews or the Christians of the Holy Land. And if one side erases the other side, we've destroyed history.
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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to be no different than a deceased person.
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I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history.
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Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
