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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
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.
- Entwined
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be around John Cena all the time in WWE, and I watched him and the way he worked. John is a guy who has been at the top longer than anyone else in history, and I'm lucky to have the opportunity to train at Cena's gym and go to him for advice.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
- Precise
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- Nov 07, 2020
History provides no precise guidelines.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.
- Nov 07, 2020