951 private quotes tagged history

“Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.” — Stockwell Day

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“Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.” — Stockwell Day

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“When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.” — Lev Grossman

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“I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.” — Queen Elizabeth II

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“While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.” — Eric Alterman

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“Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.” — Conrad Black

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“In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.” — T. Boone Pickens

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“It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.” — Helena Christensen

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“The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.” — Tom Hayden

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“How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?” — Polly Toynbee

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“Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.” — Conrad Black

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“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.” — Conrad Black

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“I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'” — Andrea Jung

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“Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.” — Sally Field

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“The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.” — Ron Chernow

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“Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.” — Michael Haneke

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“What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.” — Barney Frank

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“If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.” — Strom Thurmond

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“For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.” — Harry Browne

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“There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.” — Claude Vorilhon

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“This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?” — Azar Nafisi

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“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.” — Octavio Paz

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“The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.” — Karl Jaspers

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“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.” — Paul Gauguin

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“Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.” — Drew Barrymore

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