951 private quotes tagged history

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.” — David Brinkley

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

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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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“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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