- Community College
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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
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.
- Embody
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- Nov 07, 2020
As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the advantages of getting elected governor when you're 58 instead of 38 is you have some mileage on you and part of that means some history and some relationships with people who have spent a fair amount of their career in the public and in the private sector.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.
- Destination
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the history of Fed policymaking is that, you know, there are times when we need to raise rates.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020