“Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.”
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“Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.”
“Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.”
“We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?”
“And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.”
“I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.”
“We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.”
“Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.”
“If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.”
“The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.”
“I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.”
“Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.”
“Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.”
“I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.”
“Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.”
“But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.”
“With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.”
“Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.”
“Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.”
“Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.”
“Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.”
“When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.”
“While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.”
“I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.”