- Promises
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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
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
- Highway
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
- Nov 07, 2020
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
- Insult
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- Nov 07, 2020