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Madame de Stael on history
Author: Madame de Stael“Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.” -Madame de Stael
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A. J. P. Taylor on history
Author: A. J. P. Taylor“He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.” -A. J. P. Taylor
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Ludwig von Mises on history
Author: Ludwig von Mises“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.” -Ludwig von Mises
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Dan Rather on history
Author: Dan Rather“But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.” -Dan Rather
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Daisaku Ikeda on history
Author: Daisaku Ikeda“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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Aung San Suu Kyi on history
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi“History is always changing.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt on history
Author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt“When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Julie Burchill on history
Author: Julie Burchill“I’ve never been nostalgic, personally or politically – if the past was so great, how come it’s history?” -Julie Burchill
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Alexander Haig on history
Author: Alexander Haig“You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.” -Alexander Haig
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Kevin Costner on history
Author: Kevin Costner“I like American history.” -Kevin Costner
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Haile Gebrselassie on history
Author: Haile Gebrselassie“I want to go down in history.” -Haile Gebrselassie
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Samuel L. Jackson on history
Author: Samuel L. Jackson“I’m a good son, a good father, a good husband – I’ve been married to the same woman for 30 years. I’m a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, ‘You know, that’s part…
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Jean Piaget on history
Author: Jean Piaget“The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.” -Jean Piaget
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Haruki Murakami on history
Author: Haruki Murakami“Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.” -Haruki Murakami
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LeRoy Neiman on history
Author: LeRoy Neiman“I had a go at changing history – maybe not all by myself – I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what…
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Rand Paul on history
Author: Rand Paul“For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, ‘you don’t build that.’” -Rand Paul
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Shigeru Miyamoto on history
Author: Shigeru Miyamoto“I don’t really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.” -Shigeru Miyamoto
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Tom Osborne on history
Author: Tom Osborne“The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.” -Tom Osborne
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Angela Carter on history
Author: Angela Carter“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.” -Angela Carter
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Ed O’Neill on history
Author: Ed O’Neill“I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.” -Ed O’Neill
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Michael N. Castle on history
Author: Michael N. Castle“These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.” -Michael N. Castle
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Ric Keller on history
Author: Ric Keller“Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.” -Ric Keller
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John Polkinghorne on history
Author: John Polkinghorne“Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.” -John Polkinghorne
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Abba Eban on history
Author: Abba Eban“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” -Abba Eban
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Bill Nighy on history
Author: Bill Nighy“I don’t seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn’t help me. Precedents don’t inform my experience.” -Bill Nighy