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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many cases, it's a choice. There are many, many human beings through history - millions and millions and millions - who have been both homosexual at times in their lives and then heterosexual, or vice-versa, or bisexual. How can it be a biological imperative if people can change?
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a desirable lifestyle that will contribute to their happiness, and trying to deter them - not to prohibit, and not to punish - but trying to steer them in a direction that will contribute to their happiness.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.
- Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I'm certainly hopeful they can leave some time to focus on Tennessee history. But we understand the struggle when it comes to curriculum time and what you just physically don't have time for.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country has a painful history of mistrust between police departments and people of color. The overuse of stop-and-frisk has made those divisions much worse.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is the best guide to the future.
- Expansive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe has such an expansive history.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020