“All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.”
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“I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.”
“I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.”
“Our history is not our destiny.”
“I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.”
“Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.”
“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.”
“The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.”
“I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.”
“The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.”
“Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.”
“History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.”
“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.”
“I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.”
“In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.”
“I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.”
“I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.”
“You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.”
“I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.”
“It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.”
“If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.”
“My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.”
“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.”
“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.”