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History Quotes
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."
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"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
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"Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years."
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"Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature."
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"We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States."
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"I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare."
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"As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work."
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"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
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"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
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"This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history."
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"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"
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"If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles."
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"It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two."
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"More Americans are working today than at any time in history."
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"All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds."
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"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."
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"In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine."
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"What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34." Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russion armor during World War Two. The T-34 tank had been the Soviet Union's salvation and thereby the salvation of all the Allied Powers- and, by extension, Horselover Fat's, since without the T-34 he would be speaking - not english or Latin or the koine - but German."
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"History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion."
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"I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process."
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"In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants."
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"It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before."
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"It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom."
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"To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way."
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"I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves."
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"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."
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