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History Quotes
"History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose."
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"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."
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"There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality."
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"It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha."
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"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."
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"In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes."
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"The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already sovered with scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulant as humanity."
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"Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time."
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"Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy."
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"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."
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"One of the things, though, that has always afflicted the American reality and the American vision is this aversion to history. History is not something you read about in a book, history is not even the past-it's the present. Because everybody operates, whether or not we know it, out of assumptions which are produced and produced only by our history. Now the history of this country is not bloodier than other countries, but it's bloody. It is not more criminal than that of other countries, but it's criminal. Or in short, it's not worse than the history of France or England or any country we can name-but it's different."
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"We are the dead. We are the keepers of the stories. We hold the history of blood and promises. We are speaking. Are you listening? Will you hear?"
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"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
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"It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years."
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"First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties."
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"It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle."
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"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."
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"I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with."
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"It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."
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"Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War."
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"We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort."
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"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."
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"I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history."
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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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"History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim."
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"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."
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"I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history."
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"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
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"Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course."
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