Famous Quotes: History

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
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At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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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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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
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There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
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I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
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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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I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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