- Lessons
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
- Encapsulate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.
- Homework
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a bad history with resolutions! I don't think I have kept up even one of them so far. Once, I promised to myself that I would wake up at 6 A.M. every day - it didn't even last for a week.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look before the '90s, you might not find many - if any - albums with multiple producers. It just didn't exist in the history of music. That would have been like Michael Jackson telling Quincy Jones, 'Look man, I know we did well on 'Off The Wall,' but I'm hot now, and I need to see some other producers for 'Thriller.''
- Fiat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is reasonable to think that the more readers put into the Bible app in the form of small investments, the more it becomes a repository of their history of worship. Like a worn dog-eared book, full of scribbled insights and wisdom, the app becomes a treasured asset not easily discarded.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
- Nov 07, 2020