Famous Quotes: History

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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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.
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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
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From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
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I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.
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The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
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When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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