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History Quotes
"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."
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"Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium."
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"Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation."
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"The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them."
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"From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is."
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"If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee."
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"Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say."
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"For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals."
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"For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe."
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"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."
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"History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information."
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"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."
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"And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free."
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"We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation."
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"I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians."
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"People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other."
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"History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick."
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"As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work."
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"Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished."
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"I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation."
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"In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history."
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"There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta."
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"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."
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"At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as "panics" - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need."
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"It is not fiction. It is history. And both their histories match now."
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"Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone."
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"We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities."
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"In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine."
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"He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed."
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"The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny."
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"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us."
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"I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history."
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"I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied."
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