- Enrich
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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 May 30, 2021
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true, the Church will be raptured before the final seven years of Earth's history, but during that final seven years, many people will come to faith in Christ, but they will pay a terrible price to do so.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.
- Graham
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.
- Concentrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020