- 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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows that societies where opportunity is safeguarded tend to be societies that are good international citizens.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.
- Eras
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- Nov 07, 2020
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020