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History Quotes
"Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world."
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"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
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"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."
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"In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes."
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"The history of mankind is the history of ideas."
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"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think."
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"Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth."
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"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history."
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"So eager were its officials that the German government had telegraphed its ambassador in St. Petersburg two declarations of war to be delivered to Russia's foreign minister: one if Russia did not reply to its ultimatum, the other rejecting the Russian reply as unsatisfactory. In his haste and confusion, the ambassador handed over both messages."
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"But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts."
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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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"I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it."
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"If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false."
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"The American public historically was really not part of the stock market."
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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 am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference."
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"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."
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"The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed."
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"The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians."
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"New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent."
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"When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese."
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"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."
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"Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply."
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"As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry."
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"In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind."
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"I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history."
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"But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny."
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"Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history."
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"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
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"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."
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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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"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."
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