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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.
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- Genius
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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
- Think
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
- God
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
- Fueled
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
- Human
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
- Queen
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Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.
- People
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
- Experience
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I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels like to live through history as an experience rather than a grand story. It would be about the relationship between the tiny fragments and moments of personal experience, and the continual backdrop of big events.
- People
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In 'Mad Men,' we watch a group of people who live in a prosperous society that offers happiness and order like never before in history and yet are full of anxiety and unease. They feel there is something more, something beyond. And they feel stuck.
- Even Worse
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BP is accused of destroying the wildlife and coastline of America, but if you look back into history, you find that BP did something even worse to America. They gave the world Ayatollah Khomeini.
- Judicial
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
- May
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