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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
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
- Edwardian
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
- Hope
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That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
- Great Book
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You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
- People
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
- High Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
- Extraordinary Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020