- Alight
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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
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.
- Art Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do in comics that you couldn't do in other art forms - but no one was doing it. I figured if I'd make a try at it, I'd at least be a footnote in history.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sean Spicer gives press briefings like someone is going through his browser history while he watches.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's past and history informs them.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.
- Change Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020