951 private quotes tagged history

“Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.” — John Polkinghorne

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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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“Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.” — Jon Meacham

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“I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” — John W. Gardner

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“Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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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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“History takes time. History makes memory.” — Gertrude Stein

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“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.” — Hermann Hesse

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“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.” — Lord Acton

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“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.” — Johan Huizinga

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“May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?” — W. H. Auden

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“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” — Elie Wiesel

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“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.” — George Santayana

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“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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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.” — Bo Bennett

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“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” — Edward Gibbon

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“Ideas shape the course of history.” — John Maynard Keynes

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“You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.” — Alexander Haig

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“There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“Failure is impossible.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'” — Elayne Boosler

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“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” — Daniel Libeskind

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“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.” — Thomas Huxley

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