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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man who stormed through history on human legs. It was my great privilege to know him and work with him for many years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know much about the history of track and field, but I know Gail Devers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.
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- Nov 07, 2020
String theory has had a long and wonderful history. It originated as a technique to try to understand the strong force. It was a calculational mechanism, a way of approaching a mathematical problem that was too difficult, and it was a promising way, but it was only a technique. It was a mathematical technique rather than a theory in itself.
- Clean Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pakistani nation and Pak Army have written a new history of bravery and valor against terrorism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire' or 'Gandhi.' They took Indian novels or Indian characters and very much stayed within the Indian diaspora.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've already done enough to prove myself. Win or lose, I think I've done enough to cement my name in the history of this sport. So for me, it's more like I have to win just for an opportunity to get on the mic and say all that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.
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- Nov 07, 2020