Famous Quotes: History

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
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Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to 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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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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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
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You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
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I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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