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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
- Nov 07, 2020
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
- Greatest Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
- Past
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It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.
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- Nov 07, 2020