“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.”
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“Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.”
“I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.”
“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.”
“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
“Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.”
“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
“Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.”
“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.”
“I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.”
“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
“History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.”
“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”
“Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.”
“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”
“Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.”
“In Jewish history there are no coincidences.”
“A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.”