Famous Quotes: History

That great dust-heap called 'history'.
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History should be written as philosophy.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
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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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There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
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That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
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As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.
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