Famous Quotes: History

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
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I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
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World history is tragic.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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