Quotes with history-or

Quotes 381 till 400 of 604.

  • Anita Hill The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Don Delillo The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Kate Millet The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Richard Nixon The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest man in history was the poorest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Branch Rickey The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • George Eliot The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Laurence Sterne The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Richard Cecil The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Bernie Sanders The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The history of art is the history of revivals.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bruce Chatwin The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Voltaire The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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