Quotes with history

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  • Beau Bridges I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Bryan Robson I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Brad Schneider If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.
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  • Carlos Santana If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Carlos Slim In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Henry Ford It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Henry Ford It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • John Lydon Rotten It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
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  • Barbara Ward Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Adam Clarke Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • John Sharp Williams My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
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    John Sharp Williams
    American Democratic politician and senator (1854 - 1932)
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  • Richard Nixon No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bill Walton No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bill Flores Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Dan Quayle People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Buford Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Bill Haslam Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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