951 private quotes tagged history

“The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.” — Nancy Pelosi

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“I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.” — Jack Nicklaus

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“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.” — King Abdullah II

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“History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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“When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?” — Dick Wolf

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“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.” — Noam Chomsky

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“To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.” — Joyce Carol Oates

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“Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.” — Jason Aldean

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“If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.” — Terry Eagleton

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“It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.” — Renata Adler

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“It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.” — Conrad Hall

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“We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.” — Francois Hollande

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“The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.” — Terry Eagleton

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“Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.” — Terry Eagleton

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“The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'” — Jennifer Sky

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“Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.” — Jared Diamond

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“China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.” — James Dyson

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“The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.” — Kathryn Bigelow

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“Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.” — Jean Anouilh

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“We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.” — Novak Djokovic

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“But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.” — Novak Djokovic

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“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.” — Lawrence Durrell

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“Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.” — Rahm Emanuel

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“I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.” — Rahm Emanuel

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“Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.” — Michelle Bachelet

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