History Quotes
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In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.
Deb Caletti
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
Buchi Emecheta
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Benzino has a long, credible history as a rapper and as a producer.
Dave Itzkoff
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Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.
James Mattis
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
Candice Millard
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There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.
Jeh Johnson
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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
Afrika Bambaataa
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl Sagan
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Was a giant who changed the history of the world. I was in China during the old regime, when it was full of moneylenders and slavery. He changed all that.
R. M. Williams
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We have in mind it being a very prominent building where people can come to learn about Washington state, the territorial history and the culture,
Sam Reed
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American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
Chris Jordan
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Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
Christian Scott
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
Jennifer Granholm
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Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.
Annie Besant