History Quotes
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Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.
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There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
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It matters not its history; love has wingsLike lightning , swift and fatal, and it springsLike a wild flower where it is least expected,Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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My favorite subject is history. It's interesting.
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
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I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
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The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
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I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
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Turnberry is truly one of the most spectacular properties on earth. The views, the setting, and grandeur of the hotel - there's just nothing else like it. We've respected the architectural history of the hotel first and foremost, but most of all, we've respected the tradition of golf at Turnberry.
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There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.
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At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
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In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.
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I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.
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Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.
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The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
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If my history, my indisputable British history, has never been visited, where does that put me? If we are only going to look at things that need a revisit, you are wiping me out of this country's history. That is unacceptable to me.
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It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.
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More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
