Famous Quotes: History

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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I'm a history nut.
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We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
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I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
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That great dust-heap called 'history'.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
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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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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
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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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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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