Quotes with history

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  • Carter Heyward For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.
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  • Virginia Woolf For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ann Druyan For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Moyers For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Margaret Mead For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Alfred de Vigny France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Charles Sumner From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Aldous Huxley From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • James Cash Penney Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
    James Cash Penney
    American businessman and entrepreneur (1875 - 1971)
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  • Oscar Wilde Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William E. Gladstone He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Aristotle Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Anatole France History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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