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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.
- Inspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course Cristiano - what he has done over the last 15 years in football - is probably one of the best players ever in the history of football, so no comparison to him.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout our history, our fight for survival and freedom has been empowered by a secret weapon: Our unity.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020