- Franklin
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look back through history, you'll see that God, in any form - Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed - has always wanted prosperity for everyone. There was a recognition of the need to integrate our material and spiritual lives. But that message was distorted by various leaders with their own agendas.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In well-functioning markets, price equals opportunity cost. Meaning that the proper way to price out and charge us for things is to charge us what those resources could otherwise have produced. This is a lesson the Soviet Union never learned at all, and the rest is history.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.
- Nov 07, 2020
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.
- Committing
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- Nov 07, 2020