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History Quotes
"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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"I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women."
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"There were several key American scientists that favorably reported on Nazi eugenics after visiting Hitler's Germany in order to provide it cover."
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"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era."
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"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."
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"The history of mankind is the history of ideas."
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"The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it's just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, 'We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of France comes from the crimes we committed against Haiti, and the United States gained as well. Therefore we are going to pay reparations to the Haitian people.' Then you will see the beginnings of civilization."
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"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."
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"The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history."
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"The history of medicine is the history of the unusual."
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"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."
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"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past."
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"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that."
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"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."
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"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."
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"I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience."
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"Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption."
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"History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton."
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"This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades."
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"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."
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"Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences."
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"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end."
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"Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead."
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"Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history."
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"Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about."
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"The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year."
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"It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them."
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"Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves."
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"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."
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