951 private quotes tagged history

“Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.” — Novak Djokovic

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“Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.” — Norman Borlaug

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“There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.” — Michelle Obama

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“Black history is American history.” — Morgan Freeman

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“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!” — Nikita Khrushchev

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“After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“History is Philosophy teaching by example.” — Thucydides

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“History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.” — Ken Burns

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“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.” — Emma Goldman

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“Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.” — Elie Wiesel

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“So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.” — Sidney Poitier

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“Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.” — Tom Waits

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“Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.” — Joan Rivers

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“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.” — Salman Rushdie

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“No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.” — Gertrude Stein

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“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.” — V. S. Naipaul

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“Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.” — Marty Meehan

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“In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.” — Norodom Sihanouk

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“My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.” — William Jennings Bryan

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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.” — Arthur Ashe

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