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History Quotes
"Ten thousand years to build civilization, ten months to tear it down, and each day lasted ten times longer than the one before, and the nights lasted ten times as long as the days. The only thing more excruciating than the boredom of those hours was the terror of knowing that any minute they could end."
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"In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants."
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"Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it."
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"I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air."
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"I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot."
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"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
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"Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history."
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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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"The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country."
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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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"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."
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"Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly."
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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
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"As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity."
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"This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that."
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"The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable."
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"Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history."
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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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"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."
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"A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist."
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"We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery."
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"He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied."
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"But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good."
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"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation."
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"It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions."
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