- Deemed
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's sad to me that the main stage of history is a story of how we became this visually obsessed, extremely narcissistic, extremely concerned about image, culture. At least in the West.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. government has rarely, if ever, used the criminal history of a certain immigrant population in determining if the whole community should be allowed to remain in the country under a humanitarian program, like TPS.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols. They were quite literally created in order to capture enslaved Africans.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the University of Arizona, working on my bachelor's in history, and I got involved with a number of different groups that were connected to different social justice issues that I cared about.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
- Asserting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to big myself up, but goals like mine leave a mark on history because they're rare.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020