- 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
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the beauties about going solo was being able to start from scratch and say, 'What do I really want? What kind of band do I really want? What kind of live show do I really want to stage?' Without any of the baggage of being something with history.
- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.
- Good Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year.
- Crazier
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- Nov 07, 2020
What made the days leading up to the iPhone launch even crazier was that Apple had pulled off the greatest disappearing act in tech promotion history. In January 2007, Jobs announced the long-awaited iPhone. But somewhere that winter, the iPhone vanished.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020