Quotes with history-or

Quotes 521 till 540 of 604.

  • Bill Walton We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ben Klassen We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
    White Mans Bible White Mans Bible (1983)
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Anita Hill We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sagan We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 57 min 0 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ronald Laing We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • John Ruskin We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John F. Kennedy We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Anita Borg We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
    Anita Borg
    American computer scientist (1949 - 2003)
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  • Bill Clinton We're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • B. B. King What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Louise Erdrich What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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