951 private quotes tagged history

“I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.” — Steven Spielberg

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“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.” — Richard M. Nixon

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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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“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” — Virginia Woolf

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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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“A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.” — Washington Irving

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

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“Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.” — George W. Bush

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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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“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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“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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“Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.” — George W. Bush

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

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“The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.” — Giacomo Casanova

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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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“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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“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 history is incomprehensible without Christ.” — Ernest Renan

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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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