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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
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
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East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.
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Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationwide injunctions undermine the democratic process, depart from history and tradition, violate constitutional principles, and impede sound judicial administration, all at the cost of public confidence in our institutions and particularly in our courts as apolitical decision-makers dispassionately applying objective law.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision of the Founders. It has brought to our Republic a dynamism and effectiveness that other democracies have lacked.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you talk in terms of a rivalry game, it's always important for our guys to understand the history of the rivalry and the history of the game.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020