- Great
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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 Aug 01, 2026
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexism is deeply rooted in our history and society that waking up and stepping outside of it is like I'm watching 'Night of the Living Dead Part Two' all day, every day.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.
- Empowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
- Nov 07, 2020
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
- Defeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
- Citizens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.
- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020