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History Quotes
"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."
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"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
112
"Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically."
105
"Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history."
88
"This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts."
87
"In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?"
87
"Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats."
82
"The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history."
82
"The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history."
81
"At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point."
81
"I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision."
79
"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."
79
"However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness."
75
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
74
"It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history."
74
"Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them."
74
"I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed."
73
"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."
70
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
70
"A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally."
69
"I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out."
67
"Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God."
66
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
66
"World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought."
66
"I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history."
65
"History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world."
64
"Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language."
64
"To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence."
63
"History is Philosophy teaching by examples."
63
"From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it."
61
"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."
60
"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
59
"When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high."
59
"There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history."
55
"If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind."
55
"It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out."
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