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History Quotes
"That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain."
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"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America."
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"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."
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"Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials."
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"Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faithful of the ship's company--with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy--'And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate."
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"I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans."
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"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments."
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"Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered."
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"Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history."
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"The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands."
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"History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long."
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"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think."
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"Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history."
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"In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history."
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"On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class."
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"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
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"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world."
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"Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain."
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"Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture."
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"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."
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"In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate."
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"Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth."
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"Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path."
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"Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history."
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"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."
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