- 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
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we consume more than ever, climate change is accelerating as well. In fact, we know that 2014 was the hottest year in human history. These pressures combine to create real threats to security and stability around the world.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history... this benign conspiracy for new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020