Famous Quotes: History

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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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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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.
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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
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History is information. Memory is part of your identity.
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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
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So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.
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We learned the value of research in World War II.
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The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
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Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
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