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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

I have found Delhi so much more beautiful than Mumbai. South and central Delhi, especially, are just so beautiful - the roads, the trees, the buildings, the history.

Quotes by Akshaye Khanna

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Nov 07, 2020

Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.

Quotes by Aja Brown

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Nov 07, 2020

I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.

Quotes by Aja Brown

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Nov 07, 2020

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

Quotes by Ai Weiwei

Nov 07, 2020

History suggests the 2010s will give rise to a super-unicorn or two that reflect the key tech wave of the decade, the mobile web.

Quotes by Aileen Lee

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Nov 07, 2020

If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.

Quotes by Aileen Lee

Computers
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics.

Quotes by Aileen Lee

Nov 07, 2020

If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages.

Nov 07, 2020

Anything you care about, from vacation plans to exercise to the best Ethiopian restaurant, is going to be guided by your individual search history.

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Nov 07, 2020

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

Nov 07, 2020

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

Nov 07, 2020

With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other things on your mind besides American history. What I have to do is make this as compelling as possible.

Nov 07, 2020

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

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Nov 07, 2020

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

Nov 07, 2020

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Nov 07, 2020

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

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Nov 07, 2020

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.

Nov 07, 2020

I am not very responsible economically. I have a history working on films for years and years, and by the time I was starting the next film, I was starting from zero again.

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Nov 07, 2020

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

Nov 07, 2020

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Other entries look at cultural milestones, like a landmark show's place in Black television history, and the idea that shaping history takes more than sitting on the sidelines. Continue with Great quotes or Life quotes.

History Quotes

Personal history and the record we leave.

Other entries look at cultural milestones, like a landmark show's place in Black television history, and the idea that shaping history takes more than sitting on the sidelines. Continue with Great quotes or Life quotes.

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