- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.
- Presence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this video revolution came along and ensured that canceled shows could continue to have a bit of a presence.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We go through periods of turmoil in our nation's history, and one of the remarkable things about the United States is that we seem to keep making our way through those periods.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020