951 private quotes tagged history

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.” — Moliere

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“All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.” — John Baldacci

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“If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.” — David Horowitz

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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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“It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.” — Molly Ivins

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“All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.” — Alice Walker

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“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.” — Babatunde Olatunji

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“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.” — John Dewey

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“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” — C. Wright Mills

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“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.” — Barbara Tuchman

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“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.” — Benito Mussolini

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“The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.” — William J. Clinton

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“History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.” — Vladimir Putin

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“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.” — Johnny Depp

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“I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.” — Brian Clough

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“A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.” — Sachin Tendulkar

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“It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.” — Keith O'Brien

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“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.” — Timothy Leary

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