951 private quotes tagged history

“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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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.” — William James

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“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.” — Dan Quayle

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“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.” — John Burroughs

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“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.” — Margaret Fuller

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“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.” — Aleister Crowley

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“History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.” — Clarence Darrow

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“I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.” — Tony Bennett

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“In Jewish history there are no coincidences.” — Elie Wiesel

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“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.” — Otto von Bismarck

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“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.” — William Hazlitt

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“Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.” — Robert Orben

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“Sometimes - history needs a push.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.” — Robert Mugabe

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“Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.” — Gene Tierney

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“I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.” — Ted Nugent

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“The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.” — Doug Coupland

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“The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.” — George W. Bush

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“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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“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!” — William Makepeace Thackeray

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“Value people on their potential, not on their history.” — Bo Bennett

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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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