“There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.”
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“God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.”
“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.”
“I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.”
“To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.”
“If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.”
“I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.”
“The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.”
“I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.”
“Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.”
“I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.”
“You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.”
“I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.”
“Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.”
“I'm not sure history has ended.”
“History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.”
“I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.”
“Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.”
“We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.”
“In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?”
“World history is tragic.”
“The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.”
“The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.”
“Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.”