- Looking
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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
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal interpretation - text, structure, history, canons of interpretation, precedent, and other well-established tools of the judicial craft - are prioritized, weighted, and applied.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes,' was nominated for a number of book awards, one of which was The Quill Award, and they had it in New York at the Natural History Museum.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
I normally ignore the History Channel.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people.
- Elephant
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Allman Brothers Band has a long, storied history and I wouldn't count them out. It's just not in the cards for me.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always picture my grandkids looking at their grandfather and saying, 'My grandfather was the last or the first to do something.' There's nothing like setting goals and watching yourself get there, accomplishing that goal and putting your name to a part of history.
- Clean Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020