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History Quotes
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace."
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"The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from."
38
"When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines."
38
"By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account."
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"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
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"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"
38
"Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history."
38
"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
38
"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
38
"In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss."
38
"Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history."
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"How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history."
38
"I was so angry to realize I'm a Quebecois, with no past, no history, just two cans of maple syrup."
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"We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific."
38
"The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little."
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"The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people."
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"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."
38
"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."
37
"Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too."
37
"Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history."
37
"If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong."
37
"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century."
37
"As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry."
37
"I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy."
37
"It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation."
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"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it."
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"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"
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"I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant."
37
"Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice."
37
"I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think."
37
"So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world."
37
"If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth."
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