951 private quotes tagged history

“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.” — Wendell Phillips

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“History is a vision of God's creation on the move.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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“I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.” — Herbert Hoover

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“I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.” — John Foster Dulles

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“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.” — Colin Powell

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“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.” — Henry James

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“For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.” — Dennis Prager

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“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.” — Julie Andrews

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“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” — William James

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“History is a vast early warning system.” — Norman Cousins

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“If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.” — Temple Grandin

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“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” — Morgan Freeman

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“It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.” — Doug Coupland

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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.” — Henry Adams

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“Libraries are not made, they grow.” — Augustine Birrell

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“Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.” — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.” — Christopher Columbus

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“Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.” — Henry Adams

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“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” — R. D. Laing

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“Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.” — Ron Wyden

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“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.” — Honore de Balzac

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“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.” — Tom Hanks

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“They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.” — Douglas MacArthur

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