Quotes with history-or

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  • John F. Kennedy Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Albert J. Nock Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Richard Nixon Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Elizabeth Janeway Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Octavio Paz Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • C. S. Lewis Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • John Dewey Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Ayn Rand Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
    The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Conor Cruise O'Brien Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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  • Auguste Rodin Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • W. H. Auden May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • George Meredith Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
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  • Alexander Herzen Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Will Rogers Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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