Famous Quotes: History

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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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
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Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
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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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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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