Famous Quotes: History

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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My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
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I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
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Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.
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Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!
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I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.
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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
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The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
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I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
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I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.
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Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
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I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
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The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
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As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
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