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" Quotes and Sayings About history

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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Concept Fading History Lies
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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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History proves that the white man is a devil.

History Proves That The
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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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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

Art Biography Done Great
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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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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Converted Culture Destroy Does
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

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Channel Channels Discovery Good
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The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Perishable Science History Revealed
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The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

America Between Biggest Biggest Difference
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We will fight from house to house, from village to village. We will fight than live humiliated. We are building our country, our history, our future.

Fight House Village Humiliated
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Every time in an interval of time in history, the human spirit is tested and challenged by an affliction or a pestilence, and with faith and resilience, we have always proven to be indomitable.

History Time Human spirit Affliction
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Principle Psychological Product History
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Justification Cultural Deficit Survival
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Bible Genocidal History
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Blessings God History Mankind
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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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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Someday Mastering Winds Waves
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Around Better Change Change Things
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

College Either Government History
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Government Proves Dictatorship Transient
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The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
Path Free Society Simple
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Almost all the major viruses that has consumed millions of lives of the people in human history comes from animals; Our relationship and caution in dealings with them will determine our survival, our fate and our future as co inhabitants of this planet.

Viruses Lives Human Animals
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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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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Indeed History Tableau Crime
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Causes History Ignorance Our
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History Register Crimes Misfortunes
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Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

About Because Describe Every
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If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Always Another Because Been
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The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.

Prophets Never Taught God
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Wonder Radical Amazement Attitude
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Century Fascism History Known
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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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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Business Changing Days Getting
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Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

Alone Before Believing Convinced
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

America Behavior Capitalist Career
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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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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Alive Culture History Objects
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Across Feeling Gets Gift
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We cannot change the history of the past.”
Cannot Change History Past
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken.

We Just Feel Like
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