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History Quotes
"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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"The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history."
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"The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that 'black hole' is infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions-nothing but the fixity of the pensive gaze.With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur."
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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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"Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history."
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"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history."
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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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"Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered."
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"Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it."
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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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"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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"Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart."
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"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
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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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"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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"Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists."
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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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"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."
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"We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily."
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"There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence."
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"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding."
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"Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history."
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"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
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