951 private quotes tagged history

“If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.” — James Buchan

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“The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.” — James Buchan

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“Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.” — V. S. Naipaul

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“Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.” — Ken Kesey

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“Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.” — James Buchan

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“One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.” — James Buchan

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“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.” — Henry James

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“A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.” — Russell Baker

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“Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.” — Twyla Tharp

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“History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.” — George H. W. Bush

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“This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.” — John Perkins

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“To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'” — V. S. Naipaul

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“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.” — Salman Rushdie

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“There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.” — Salman Rushdie

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“Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.” — J. C. Watts

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“I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.” — Jeremy Rifkin

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“I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.” — LL Cool J

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“If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.” — Wallace Shawn

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“Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.” — Lion Feuchtwanger

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“We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.” — Thabo Mbeki

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“For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.” — Nicolaus Copernicus

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“Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.” — James A. Garfield

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“The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.” — Bruce Springsteen

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