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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
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love if between 'La La Land' and 'The Greatest Showman' we generate a new wave of movie musicals because, as an art form, musical narrative is so engaging and has produced some of the most iconic moments in cinema history.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.
- Entrepreneurial Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020