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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
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
While it has been mostly unreported, Mr. Trump has embraced the LGBT community like no other GOP nominee in history.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's history, and her government did not allow the media freedoms she criticizes Musharraf for crushing.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
- Longest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not many people know that.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets of life in psychology, although its Freudian variety left me cold. The id never made much sense to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence.
- Us
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.
- Nov 07, 2020
We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be.
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- Nov 07, 2020