- Australia
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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
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
- Great Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
- Columbus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics.
- Method
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020