History Quotes
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In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: 'to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.'
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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.
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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
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History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.
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I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.
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If you look at our country's history, change doesn't come from presidents. Change comes from large groups of angry people.
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What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
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If you forget your history, you forget who you are.
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I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.
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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
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History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.
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A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.
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As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
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All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
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We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.
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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
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'I Can Do That' has been the most challenging show of my life, and the result has been overwhelming. It is good to know I will be in the history as the first winner of the season of the show.
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The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.
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'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
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Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.
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Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.
