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"266 History Quotes

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

Building Deadline Decades Learned
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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Excuse Young Heroes Heroines
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

News Truth False New
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Anything He History Learn
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Think History I
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History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money.

Easy History Just Keep
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Care Long Timid Weak
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

History Today Way Like
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Choice Chance Free History
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

History Is People Memory
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Call Historians History Like
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Agreed History Lies Set
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Agree Decided Events History
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Agreed Upon Fable History
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

History Philosophy Skepticism Virtue
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

About Attractive Begin Being
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

Allow Altered Any Been
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Bury History Like Our
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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

About Art Art History Attention
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Causes History Ignorance Our
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Battle Even Folded Great
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

History Insane InsanePeople Mainly
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

There's Always Part Your
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Abstraction Beauty Believe Change
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

History Repeat Itself You
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

History Relentless Present Past
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Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

Not Unlike Country History
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My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.

My Style Not Specific
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I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Wanted Remind Myself Others
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Story Part Work History
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Live History Permit
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Emancipation History Interesting Itself
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Able Class Consciousness Countries
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Sometimes - history needs a push.
History Needs Push Sometimes
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There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Some History Have Happened
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Art Conventional Dealing History
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Effort History Human Human Nature
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In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

Days Moses Prophets Counted
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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Think History Exaggeration Largely
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time

Real Human History Irrational
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Arisen Blunders Books Dancing
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All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

History Class Struggle Dominated
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Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins.

Across Amount Any Bitcoin
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Machine Age Time History
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Condemn Matter History Absolve
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Knows Percent Fabulous History
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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Proud History Country School
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Echo Future History Past
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

People Motive Alone World
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

About Cannot Defend Event
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