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History Quotes
"History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all."
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"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
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"My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it."
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"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
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"It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process."
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"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."
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"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies."
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"I have in this War a burning private grudge-which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light."
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"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."
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"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
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"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
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"Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people."
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"Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy."
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"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."
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"The history of medicine is the history of the unusual."
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"As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity."
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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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"Journalism is in fact history on the run."
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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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"The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history."
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"If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong."
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"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion."
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"World history is a court of judgment."
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"At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada."
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"Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam."
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"For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe."
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"The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought."
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"In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes."
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"Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption."
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"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."
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"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it."
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