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"266 History Quotes

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Takes Great deal History Little literature
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

History's ironies Classless society
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History is the memory of States.

History Memory
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus

History Knows Resting places
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In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.

1920s Dominated Had Information
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The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

1930s Because Companies File
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In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.
1920s Against Borrow Buy
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In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

1970s Banks Household Massive
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Against Bourgeois Capital Class
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History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Best History Only Proletariat
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I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.
Back Carry Historians IThink
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Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Day Every Extraordinary Had
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The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

Accelerate Action Although Determining
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The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

Act Classes Constitution Constitutional
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The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
History Inseparable New NewYork
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There is no history that can be wished away in human existence. Colonialism was a complex history that cannot be erased by demolishing a statue of an imperialist who built the very halls in which you sit to learn about evils of imperialism.

Learn Built Statue Erased
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When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.

Club Corner Field Grass
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Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

Against Argument Contrary Course
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I read more history books than anything else.
Anything Anything Else Books Else
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Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Commercial General General Public Hard
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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

Ancient Example Find Gigantic
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History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

History Romance Believe
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True healing and recovery only comes from addressing not avoiding history. Today we celebrate the souls lost to the Biafran war.

True healing Addressing Avoiding history
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The more of your history you can forget, the more of your destiny you can access

The more History Forget Destiny
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You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Change History Faces Portraits
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

Moment comes History Step out New
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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

Own history More important Can achieve
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Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Every time History repeats Price
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…If the history of Africa was written by Africans and by women Africans, I think we would find many unsung heroes. But that’s not enough.

The history Women Unsung heroes
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History is rarely made by reasonable men.

History Made Reasonable men
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

History Taught Stories Forgotten
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If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

Any question We died Father's lied
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As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.

Tell you History depends Your point
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

History warns Customary fate New truth Heresies
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Throughout history, our people have responded to challenges that force us to look inwards for solutions that will guarantee our survival.

Throughout history Our people Have responded Challenges
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History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

History Has shown Time Right
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Every tribe must know the true history of their people. A people who do not know their history have no place in future so also are a people who believe fake history about themselves.

Every trip True history People Have
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History is a pathfinder of any nation. But if history is thwarted or given by the third parties, it can be misleading and dangerous for the nation.

History Pathfinder Any nation Thwarted
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing in capabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

History Commentary Continuing In capabilities
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History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.

History Nowadays Matter Conviction
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There is room in history for all of us.

Room In history
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History is the autobiography of a madman.

History Autobiography Madman
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.

History A novel People The author
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Raped history Produced Beautiful offspring
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History teaches everything including the future.

History Teaches Everything Future
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History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

History List Surprises Prepare
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While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

While Cannot Live History
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Contents Bookcase History Ancestral
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Essential Resist The depiction History
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A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

A myth Far truer History Story
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