951 private quotes tagged history

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” — Michelle Obama

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“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.” — Leslie Fiedler

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“You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.” — Peter Abrahams

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“No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.” — Hannah Arendt

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“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” — Dean Acheson

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“I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.” — Michael Phelps

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“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.” — Edward R. Murrow

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“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.” — Milton Friedman

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“Our history is not our destiny.” — Alan Cohen

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“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.” — Golda Meir

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“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” — John Quincy Adams

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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” — Frank Herbert

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“If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.” — Josh McDowell

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“But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.” — Damien Hirst

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“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.” — Salma Hayek

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“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.” — John Hodgman

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“Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.” — Ralph Abernathy

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“I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.” — Elton John

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“Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.” — Luis Gutierrez

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“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.” — Andy Grove

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“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.” — Joseph Conrad

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“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?” — Emile M. Cioran

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