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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
- How
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When we have a disaster in Japan, I wonder, how can we prevent our lives and traditions and history from the disaster?
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
- Laughs
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- Nov 07, 2020
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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- Nov 07, 2020