Famous Quotes: History

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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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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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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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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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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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
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It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
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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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History passes the final judgment.
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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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I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.
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It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.
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