Famous Quotes: History

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
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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.
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The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
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The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
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At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
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The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
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If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.
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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
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Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
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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.
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.
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