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History Quotes
"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."
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"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
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"Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history."
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"But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling."
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"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
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"Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history."
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"The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck."
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"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."
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"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present."
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"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes."
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"Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States."
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"When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan."
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"The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history."
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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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"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
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"How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire."
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"One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name."
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"It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine."
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"You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism."
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"It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans."
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"There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it."
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"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology."
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"Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history."
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"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
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"All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development."
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