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Rick James on history
Author: Rick James“I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn’t have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling… I’m the most sampled artist in history.” -Rick James
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Wallace Shawn on history
Author: Wallace Shawn“In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.” -Wallace Shawn
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Lion Feuchtwanger on history
Author: Lion Feuchtwanger“Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.” -Lion Feuchtwanger
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George Galloway on history
Author: George Galloway“I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.” -George Galloway
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Edwin Powell Hubble on history
Author: Edwin Powell Hubble“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.” -Edwin Powell Hubble
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Thabo Mbeki on history
Author: Thabo Mbeki“We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.” -Thabo Mbeki
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Thomas Mann on history
Author: Thomas Mann“What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.” -Thomas Mann
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Jonathan Sacks on history
Author: Jonathan Sacks“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” -Jonathan Sacks
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Jose Ortega y Gasset on history
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.” -Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Gene Tierney on history
Author: Gene Tierney“Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.” -Gene Tierney
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Ibrahim Babangida on history
Author: Ibrahim Babangida“Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.” -Ibrahim Babangida
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Eddie Izzard on history
Author: Eddie Izzard“I’m quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia – which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn’t have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think…
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Norman Cousins on history
Author: Norman Cousins“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.” -Norman Cousins
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Damien Hirst on history
Author: Damien Hirst“But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.” -Damien…
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Bruce Springsteen on history
Author: Bruce Springsteen“The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.” -Bruce Springsteen
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Rosa Luxemburg on history
Author: Rosa Luxemburg“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.” -Rosa Luxemburg
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Monica Lewinsky on history
Author: Monica Lewinsky“He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn’t. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.” -Monica Lewinsky
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Eldridge Cleaver on history
Author: Eldridge Cleaver“History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.” -Eldridge Cleaver
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Ralph Abernathy on history
Author: Ralph Abernathy“Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.” -Ralph Abernathy
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Leopold Von Ranke on history
Author: Leopold Von Ranke“You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.” -Leopold Von Ranke
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Nicolaus Copernicus on history
Author: Nicolaus Copernicus“For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.” -Nicolaus Copernicus
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Anita Desai on history
Author: Anita Desai“India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.” -Anita Desai
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John le Carre on history
Author: John le Carre“History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.” -John le Carre
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Laura Linney on history
Author: Laura Linney“History’s a resource.” -Laura Linney
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Murray Gell-Mann on history
Author: Murray Gell-Mann“So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.” -Murray Gell-Mann