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"266 History Quotes

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

Many Figures History Believe
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

Glance Important Revolutions Greatest
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Before Censored Elders First
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Before Being Censored Elders
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If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

Past Present History Sleeping
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Better History Human Ignorance
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The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

Aim Community Creation Glorious
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History is like a mirror, capable of showing what a man really is.
Mirror Capable Man Really
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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

History Astronomy Receding Horizons
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Grand History Morals Inculcated
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As far as one knows of heroines from history. I'm capable of a great jerk, an effort, and then a relaxation—but steady every-day goodness is beyond me. I must be a moral kangaroo!

Heroines History Capable Effort
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

Been Congress History Tradition
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Found History Lived Never
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Am Before Began Civilization
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Back Die History Knowing
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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Count History Individuals Most
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I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

Great Drama teacher High school Learn
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Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Forty People Histories Options
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I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

Because Businesses Change History
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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.

Also Art Artist Audience
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Aspects Elevated Histories History
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

After Anyone Before Even
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When a nation loses respect for history, straying from the harbor of safety becomes inevitable.

Nation Loses History Safety
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I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

1940s 1970s Book Brooklyn
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Been Burn Destroy Else
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

High school Interested History People do
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We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

Teach Children History Understand
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

History Inaction Indifference Silence
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History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

History Teaches Unity Strength
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In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

History Human race Great Transcended
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

All Confirmed Economics History
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

History Horror Last Natural
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When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Cross Drama Ends Enter
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The only antidote to the reversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.

Only antidote Reversibility History
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The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

Last century Abundance Ideologies History
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As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

Sure History Repeating itself Man
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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Bringing Democracy First First Time
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Ascent Blind Consciousness Forces
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If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Ability Almost Back Big
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Achieving Activity Ends History
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Been Class Has Been History
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Battles Does Fight History
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

History Locomotives Of Revolutions
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Cultural Culture Goes Itself
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What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

Am Deep Deep Down Down
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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
History Ideas Mankind The History Of
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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
Always American Civil Full
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Written Much history Faith Wrong
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I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Back Become Complacency Complacent
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Endless amount History Tradition
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