Famous Quotes: History

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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History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
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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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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
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My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
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Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
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If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
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I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.
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Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.
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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
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I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
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Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
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