Famous Quotes: History

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
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I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
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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 Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
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More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
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I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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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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History is everything that has ever happened.
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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
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I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
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In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.
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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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