Quotes 221 till 240 of 604.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142 -
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
Bernard M. Baruch
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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 of the human mind.
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If you look at history we've had since I've been in office, in an environment where we haven't had earmarks, we've still been able to get tens of millions of dollars for McLennan County.
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If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
The First World War (1963) p. 165 -
In all our efforts to provide ''advantages'' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.''
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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.
Speech Stanford University, 11 august 1928 -
In every election in American history both parties have their clichés. The party that has the clichés that ring true wins.
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