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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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action use - and have used throughout history - to solve their problems and achieve their greatest triumphs. Not in the classroom but on the battlefield, in the forum, and at court.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
- Life
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I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020