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History Quotes
"Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility."
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"The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched."
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"You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for."
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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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"More Americans are working today than at any time in history."
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"As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race."
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"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."
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"Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn)."
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"There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up."
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"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."
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"The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa."
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"The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes."
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"During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history."
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"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction."
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"And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died."
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"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
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"I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits."
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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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"That's history. I say history because it happened in the past."
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"Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history."
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"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."
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"Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history."
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"From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history."
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"History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice."
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"With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history."
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"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."
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"A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also."
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"The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination."
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"Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible."
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"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."
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"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only."
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"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history."
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"So eager were its officials that the German government had telegraphed its ambassador in St. Petersburg two declarations of war to be delivered to Russia's foreign minister: one if Russia did not reply to its ultimatum, the other rejecting the Russian reply as unsatisfactory. In his haste and confusion, the ambassador handed over both messages."
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"We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free."
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