- Live
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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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?
- Greater Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs, from greater understanding of ourselves and our world to answers about what to do.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our interest in history always reflects our own times.
- Definitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.
- Elders
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
- Censored
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020