Famous Quotes: History

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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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
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I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
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Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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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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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
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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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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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Value people on their potential, not on their history.
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I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
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