Famous Quotes: History

Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.
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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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The government invented the Internet.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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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 look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
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It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.
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Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.
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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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