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History Quotes
"We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things."
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"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."
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"I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development."
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"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."
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"I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history."
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"History is an excellent teacher with few pupils."
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"History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work."
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"We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online."
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"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
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"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."
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"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned."
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"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."
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"Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority."
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"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now."
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"History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy."
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"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."
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"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations."
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"Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history."
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"The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy."
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"And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time."
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"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
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"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
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"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary."
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"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book."
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"When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing."
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"Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions."
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"History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."
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"We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past."
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"As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me."
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