Famous Quotes: History

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
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There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
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It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.
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It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
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I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
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I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
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Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
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