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History Quotes
"In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history."
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"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."
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"Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years."
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"Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history."
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"Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain."
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"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
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"I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it."
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"Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings."
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"The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands."
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"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
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"The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!"
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"Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its 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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"But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny."
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"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
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"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
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"Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face."
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"History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?"
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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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"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'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."
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"What do you consider the most interesting man-made structure in the galaxy?The dam they are building at the Three Gorges on the Yangtse. Though perhaps '"baffling'" would be a better word. Dams almost never do what they were intended to do, but create devastation beyond belief. And yet we keep on building them, and I can''t help but wonder why. I''m convinced that if we go back far enough in the history of the human species, we will find some beaver genes creeping in there somewhere. It''s the only explanation that makes sense."
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"I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!"
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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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"The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed."
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"As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives."
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"I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects."
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