Famous Quotes: History

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
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History is everything that has ever happened.
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
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Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
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I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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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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I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
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Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
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I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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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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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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