951 private quotes tagged history

“History passes the final judgment.” — Sidney Poitier

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“What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.” — Thomas Mann

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“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.” — Edwin Powell Hubble

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“I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.” — George Galloway

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“So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.” — Murray Gell-Mann

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“I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.” — Hugh Laurie

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“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.” — David Cronenberg

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“India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.” — Anita Desai

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“History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.” — Eldridge Cleaver

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“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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“History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.” — John le Carre

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“When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.” — Rahm Emanuel

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“Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.” — Leigh Hunt

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“I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.” — Bill Nighy

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“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.” — Ludwig von Mises

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“If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.” — Dan Rather

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“Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.” — Cecil Beaton

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“I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.” — LeRoy Neiman

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“The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.” — Rand Paul

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“I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.” — Marc Jacobs

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“I like American history.” — Kevin Costner

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“These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.” — Michael N. Castle

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“In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.” — A. J. P. Taylor

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