- Hope
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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
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it's a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone's garage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs my writing of a certain connectedness to my time, but potentially might allow it to make sense to people who are not in this time.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.
- Government Spending
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
- Nonlinear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020