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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a lot of history for fun.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know from our own history, and that of our neighbors, that where conflicts and disagreements are not resolved peacefully, the suffering and bloodshed that follows and the collapse of economic and social development leads to tragic consequences.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.
- Best Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.
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- Nov 07, 2020