Famous Quotes: History

I'm a history nut.
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A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
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If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.
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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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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
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Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
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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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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
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I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
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I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
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I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at 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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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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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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