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"266 History Quotes

History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout.
Artist History Job Losers
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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Anything Civilization Could History
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Alter Cannot God Historians
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Bad Good Greatest History
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Essays History Influence Lies
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America Australia Because Captain
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Age Charm Consist Different
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Feel Like Busy Too
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

History Imagination Live Out
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Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Contemporary Gets History Message
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I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word.

Honestly Say After Talking
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Blood Could History Human
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Some stories are true that never happened.
Happened Never Some Stories
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Coincidences History Jewish There
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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.

Attitudes Food History I Love
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Alternatives Behave Exhausted History
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Art Best Casts Certain
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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Brown Degree Fulfill History
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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Best Game Heads History
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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Get Great History Once
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Any Anyone Arrangement Domination
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Begin Change Disappearing History
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

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I think you can learn from history.

History Learn Think You
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Looking back on the production of 'Never mind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Disorder Stress Fanatic Prominent
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The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

American Because Colonies Impossible
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

He History Man Me
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

Across Cultural Descent Distant
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

About American American History Anyone
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
History People Them Trapped
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Also Am Certainly Circumstance
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We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

Africa Capital Entrenched History
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

American Beautiful Birth Canal
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