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History Quotes
"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."
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"But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny."
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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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"Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days."
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"This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'"
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"The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history."
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"Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it."
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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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"This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history."
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"Often, superstition and injustice are imposed by the same ecclesiastical and secular authorities, working hand in glove. It is no surprise that political revolutions, scepticism about religion, and the rise of science might go together."
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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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"It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'"
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"What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority."
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"The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy."
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"In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory."
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"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"
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"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."
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"The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning."
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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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"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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"What they teach you as history is mythology, and true mythology is far from fantasy - every kind reveals true fragments of our real history. A bulk of our real history can be found in Egyptian and Greek mythology. Yes, myths reveal to us worlds of other dimensions that make up our true reality. History books teach us that the minds of the past operated on the same frequency, dimension, or level of consciousness as we do now. Not true at all."
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"If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences."
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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."
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"History shows you don't know what the future brings."
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"History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time."
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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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"The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally."
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"I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history."
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