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History Quotes
"Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness."
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"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."
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"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
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"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness."
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"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."
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"Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people."
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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
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"The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local."
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"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"
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"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."
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"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
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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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"It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two."
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"When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period."
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"It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them."
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"I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class."
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"This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old."
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"In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history."
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"If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history."
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"I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally."
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"The American public historically was really not part of the stock market."
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"The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought."
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"The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian."
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"The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on."
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"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
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"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."
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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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"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."
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