Famous Quotes: History

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
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No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
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I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
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When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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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.
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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
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I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
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