Famous Quotes: History

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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History should be written as philosophy.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
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I want to go down in history.
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It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
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There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
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We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
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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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It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.
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Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.
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The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
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Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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