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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
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 17, I entered a modeling contest in my home province in China because my mother wanted me to learn better posture. And the rest is history!
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.
- Cleverest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020