history

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘history’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.” -Vladimir Putin

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  • “Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” -Aristotle

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  • “History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.” -Phyllis Schlafly

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  • “In the history of America, we’ve never had an energy plan. We don’t even realize the resources we have available to us.” -T. Boone Pickens

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  • “What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don’t want to study the social sciences, because it’s not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people…

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  • “This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran’s ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?” -Azar Nafisi

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  • “There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.” -Claude Vorilhon

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  • “For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.” -Harry Browne

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  • “If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.” -Strom Thurmond

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  • “Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.” -Carlos Fuentes

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  • “I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.” -Queen…

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  • “Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.” -Stockwell Day

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  • “Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It’s like you’re touching the essence, the very substance of life.” -Kim Novak

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  • “When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.” -Lev Grossman

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  • “While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.” -Eric Alterman

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  • “I feel like I’m part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, ‘I’ve got to do a better job.’” -Andrea Jung

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  • “Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.” -John Moody

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  • “If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.” -Thom Yorke

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  • “The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.” -Ron Chernow

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  • “Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that’s been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims…

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  • “Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.” -Sally Field

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  • “Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first – forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates…

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  • “It’s incredible to have been part of fashion history – my whole career has been one big highlight.” -Helena Christensen

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  • “For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.” -Conrad Black

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  • “It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.” -Sean Parker

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  • “How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world’s main religions?” -Polly Toynbee

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  • “The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that’s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.” -Tom Hayden

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  • “Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.” -Alphonse de Lamartine

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  • “We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?” -John Guare

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  • “And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.” -Julien Benda

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  • “I’m so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.” -Zoe Saldana

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  • “We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we’ve been in wars ever since. We’re not a pacific people.” -James Lee Burke

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  • “Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.” -B. H. Liddell Hart

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  • “If you listen to Giuliani, it’s like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I’m not part of the history. Bloomberg’s not part of the history. It’s like, he did it. He’s the only one. That’s why he’s a little crazy.” -Ed Koch

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  • “The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.” -Joseph Brodsky

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  • “I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.” -Robert Caro

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  • “Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we’ve done that before.” -Matt Groening

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  • “Never in our country’s history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.” -Jo Bonner

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  • “As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.” -Ayelet Waldman

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  • “Why shouldn’t rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it’s this old idea of containment – that rappers, because they’re black, can’t and shouldn’t aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.” -Saul Williams

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  • “When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.” -Lynn Abbey

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  • “I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women’s history.” -Antonia Fraser

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  • “Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.” -Andrew Weil

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  • “But whenever history is in the making, there’s some kind of intangible feeling.” -Krist Novoselic

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  • “With copious evidence ranging from Plato’s haughtiness to Beethoven’s tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.” -Stephen Jay Gould

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  • “Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country.” -Jackson Browne

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  • “We’ve been a country that’s been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.” -Condoleezza Rice

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  • “We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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  • “I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.” -Howard Nemerov

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  • “You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.” -Alan Shepard

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  • “Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.” -Bernie Sanders

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  • “I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.” -Al Yankovic

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  • “Macon has such a rich musical history – and the state of Georgia, as well.” -Jason Aldean

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  • “I’m not sure history has ended.” -John Bolton

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  • “The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that’s about it.” -Arthur Smith

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  • “Throughout this country’s history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.” -Eric Liu

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  • “In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?” -Manuel Puig

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  • “World history is tragic.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt

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  • “I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.” -Boris Becker

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  • “The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.” -Harold Wilson

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  • “Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.” -Arthur Henderson

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  • “Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.” -Leigh Hunt

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  • “From a reality perspective, I’m sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don’t know what is.” -Jennifer Granholm

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  • “If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.” -Dominic Monaghan

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  • “The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.” -Potter Stewart

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  • “In Thailand’s history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.” -Bhumibol Adulyadej

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  • “It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.” -Michael Apted

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  • “You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.” -Arthur Ashe

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  • “I think there’s a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.” -Danica Patrick

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  • “Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.” -Emily Blunt

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  • “There’s a difference between knowing what’s on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.” -Garth Brooks

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  • “It’s a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.” -Scarlett Johansson

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  • “God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.” -David Wilkerson

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  • “With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.” -Walter Lang

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  • “I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.” -John Thune

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  • “I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.” -Enya

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  • “To this wonderful page in our country’s history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.” -Giuseppe Garibaldi

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  • “If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.” -Bernard Baruch

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  • “I’m the fourth generation to be in show business. It’s pretty neat it’s nice to have that family history.” -Rachel Bilson

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  • “Life doesn’t just happen it’s constructed through the history of power. And that’s something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that’s trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.” -Mike Mills

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  • “Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.” -Stephen Ambrose

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  • “Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.” -Tony Kushner

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  • “All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.” -Barbara Kruger

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  • “Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.” -Thomas Friedman

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  • “America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.” -Georges Clemenceau

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  • “History can never be covered up.” -Zhu Rongji

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  • “I’ve always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain – its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.” -Gary Numan

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  • “Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.” -Frederick Jackson Turner

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  • “If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.” -Dean Kamen

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  • “Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation’s founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America’s storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.” -Joe Barton

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  • “To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.” -Charles Babbage

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  • “All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.” -Friedrich Engels

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  • “All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.” -Anita Roddick

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  • “I don’t know the history of my sport. I’m not like those people who know everything.” -Usain Bolt

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  • “I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.” -Sidney Sheldon

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  • “I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights – if need be – with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.” -Lee Myung-bak

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  • “When history is erased, people’s moral values are also erased.” -Ma Jian

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  • “The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.” -Walter Bagehot

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  • “Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.” -Norman Mailer

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  • “I don’t want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn’t pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.” -Rahm Emanuel

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  • “Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it.” -Jean Anouilh

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  • “History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.” -Lawrence Durrell

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  • “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” -David McCullough

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  • “My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.” -David Soul

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  • “I don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.” -Bobby Flay

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  • “My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I’ve spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.” -Melissa Gilbert

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  • “The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.” -Nick Clegg

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  • “In man – in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they’re occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people’s will is what achieves victory.” -Hassan Nasrallah

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  • “The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.” -Fareed Zakaria

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  • “Secretly, I’m a real big nerd. I’d rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.” -Sprague Grayden

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  • “As a freelance writer, I’d be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.” -John Hodgman

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  • “‘Days’ has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it’s still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I’m proud to be a part of it.” -Alison Sweeney

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  • “The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it’s Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women’s rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.” -James McGreevey

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  • “Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.” -Jean Genet

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  • “But, it’s because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.” -Novak Djokovic

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  • “Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.” -Terry Eagleton

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  • “When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.” -Eugene V. Debs

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  • “History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.” -Naguib Mahfouz

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  • “Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I’m optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.” -Jared Diamond

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  • “Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes – all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone’s car or ask a cell phone company for that individual’s location history and the technology does the work for them.” -Ron…

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  • “It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.” -Renata Adler

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  • “I’ll watch any show on the History Channel.” -Rick Springfield

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  • “Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.” -Liev Schreiber

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  • “Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.” -Conrad Hall

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  • “In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can’t even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn’t have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.”…

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  • “Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.” -Michelle Bachelet

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  • “I don’t want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn’t go out that night. What you’re doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.” -Seann William Scott

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  • “The Communist regime didn’t consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.” -Kathryn Bigelow

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  • “The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don’t, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened… and it happened because of a beautiful idea.” -Genevieve Gorder

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  • “In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.” -Theodore Bikel

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  • “In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.” -John McCarthy

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  • “The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.” -Paul Gauguin

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  • “Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.” -George Michael

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  • “If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn’t eat lunch.” -A. N. Wilson

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  • “What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.” -Emir Kusturica

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  • “Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.” -Sloane Crosley

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  • “History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.” -Enoch Powell

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  • “I think you can learn from history.” -Chuck Norris

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  • “Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.” -James A. Garfield

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  • “History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.” -Alan Greenspan

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  • “That’s history. I say history because it happened in the past.” -Murray Walker

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  • “China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn’t have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers – the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.” -James Dyson

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  • “Strip malls are history.” -Jeff Bezos

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  • “We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time… to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.” -Francois Hollande

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  • “The history of mankind is the history of ideas.” -Luigi Pirandello

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  • “The ’80s were fabulous. The ’90s sucked, and the ’70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There’s something that’s just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and ‘I’m a loner.’” -Jennifer Sky

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  • “The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.” -Noam Chomsky

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  • “The Jews’ greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.” -Shimon Peres

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  • “Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.” -Phyllis George

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  • “The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.” -Nancy Pelosi

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  • “The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.” -King Abdullah II

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  • “I’ve been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.” -Jack Nicklaus

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  • “Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.” -Paul Simon

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  • “No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.” -Ellen Glasgow

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  • “There’s no one place a virus goes to die – but that doesn’t make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.” -Jeffrey Kluger

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  • “War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.” -Jane Goodall

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  • “Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.” -Barbara Ehrenreich

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  • “When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, ‘Who are these people? Why should we watch them?” -Dick Wolf

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  • “It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.” -Joyce Carol Oates

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  • “In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.” -Hans-Georg Gadamer

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  • “Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.” -Charles Henry Parkhurst

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  • “People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.” -Caroline Kennedy

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  • “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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  • “History is always changing.” -Aung San Suu Kyi

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  • “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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  • “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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  • “If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.” -Ludwig von Mises

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  • “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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  • “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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  • “There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.” -Charlie Kaufman

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  • “Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.” -Cecil Beaton

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  • “I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they’ve been waiting or whether it’s raining or it’s snowing or whatever.” -Marc Jacobs

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  • “Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.” -Steve King

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  • “The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.” -Giacomo Casanova

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  • “I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I…

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  • “From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.” -Umberto Eco

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  • “Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.” -Barbara Jordan

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  • “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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  • “Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.” -Ric Keller

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  • “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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