Famous Quotes: History

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
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Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
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As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.
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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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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.
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In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
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When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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