- Politics
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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
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I knew Liverpool were interested in me, I knew I wanted to come here. It was everything about the club, the history and these players.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
- Meaningful
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- Nov 07, 2020
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I heard a lot about strength. My dad - a Holocaust survivor - embodied it, though he would never say that about himself. Not only did he survive one of the most horrific events in history, but he never lost hope along the way, crediting acts of kindness with keeping him alive.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020