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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
- Nov 07, 2020
History is about who tells it.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.
- Burner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.
- Nov 07, 2020
Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'
- Purple
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.
- Frustrations
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is a sly boots, and for a generation of blacks that cannot identify with the frustrations of Jim Crow, and for whites who cannot understand the hard deal that faces working-class blacks, it is difficult to reconcile Hughes's reputation as a poet-hero with his topical verse and uncomplicated prose.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020