History Quotes
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If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.
Peter Levine
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon
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Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
Chuck Eddy
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I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.
Angus Deaton
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When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
Dave Foley
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I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.
Louise Jameson
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Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
Dita Von Teese
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Nadine Gordimer
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
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Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
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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.
Jeh Johnson
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I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
Anderson Cooper
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As a first generation American myself, I know that comprehensive immigration reform is good for our country. I know it will reduce our deficit, grow our economy, reaffirm our values, advance our ideals, and honor our history as a nation of immigrants.
Jan Schakowsky
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The world has held great Heroes,As history books have showed;But never a name to go down to fameCompared with that of Toad!
Kenneth Grahame
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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
George Eliot
