Quotes with history-or

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  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Ben Parr There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver 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.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bell Hooks These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bobby Fischer They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
    Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [8]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Benito Mussolini Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Richard Nixon This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Arthur Henderson Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • George Santayana Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
    The Life of Reason, Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense (1905)
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Edmund Burke Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carter G. Woodson Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Albert Camus Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Allen Klein Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Salman Rushdie Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • George Orwell To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Leslie Fiedler To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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