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History Quotes
"All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds."
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"The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history."
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"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
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"You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history."
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"War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too."
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"It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema."
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"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind."
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"One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since."
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"I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties."
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"In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized."
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"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."
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"Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material."
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"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."
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"Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice."
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"I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06."
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"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history."
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"History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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"Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable."
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"The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad."
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"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."
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"Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity - remains literature. History's third dimension is always fiction."
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"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
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"Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil."
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"There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race."
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"Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need."
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"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."
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"When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven."
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"Journalism is in fact history on the run."
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"Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to."
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"My history is really playing live - not writing or recording."
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"Whole generations have forgotten history."
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