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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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- Nov 07, 2020