- Man
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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
- Greatest Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
- Forties
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).
- Corey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax code and lower it. We can put America back on track on a growth level and a growth rate that we've never seen in the history of this country.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone likes to learn history. They just don't like to hear it from a professor looking at notes. They like to hear it like it's from their uncle, and that's how I explain history.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a middle-class family back in the 1970s meant we only had one TV... and it wasn't in your room... so when I was 8 years old, I began developing a passion for reading history, and it's never stopped.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not think twice when the offer from England came because it was always a professional goal of mine. I want to make history in Watford and score lots of goals.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about 'Essence' that we more than like - that we really love: the history of the community, the forward-thinking leadership.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020