Famous Quotes: History

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
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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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I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
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My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
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I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
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My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
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Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
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The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
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We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.
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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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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
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