3629 History Quotes for You to Enjoy

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do. W. Daniel Hillis

History You About More Genome Knows Than Much Your Medical

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake. Walter Martin

Great History You Mistake People Church Made Minds Say Out Some Great Minds Throw Sin Because Committed Credibility

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. Warren Buffett

History Game People Past Would Would-Be Past History Richest Richest People

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. Will Self

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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. Woodrow Wilson

History Writing Regret Only True Lightning Like Terribly

The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold. Woody Harrelson

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. Wynton Marsalis

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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. Umberto Eco

History Events Thought Looking Christopher India Finding He Columbus Tale Because Discovered Australia America Happened Cook Full Captain Imaginary

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. Queen Elizabeth II

God Strength Me History Old Will Living Aim Thousand Thousand Years Spirit More Only Splendid Empire Majesty New Years Traditions Than Behind Different Commonwealth Races Lands United Origins Societies

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. Barack Obama

History Simple Pay President Our Boot Jobs Rate Higher Had Higher Taxes Over New Fair Economy Households New Jobs Surplus Clinton Lot Reform Same Tax Want Tax Code Biggest Taxes Ask Created Bill Bill Clinton Code Incomes Nearly Million Millionaires

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe. Richard Dawkins

History Science Long Universe Increasing Has-Been Long Series Generations Come Terms Been The History Of Successive Series Levels Violent

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? Jackie Kennedy

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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. Lyndon B. Johnson

Me History Fear Feared Russians

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. Arnold J. Toynbee

History Civilization Voyage Condition Movement Harbor

I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration. Valentina Tereshkova

History Light Space Will Believe Stars Difficult Universe Crew Way Those Astronauts Follow Remain Columbia Roads Sincere Names Am Loss Condolences Friends Families Space Exploration Them Sparkling Exploration Who Express Bright Deeply

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. Evita Peron

History Rich Think About Ideas Poor

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. Jacques Chirac

Art History Construction Possible Europe

Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history. A. B. Yehoshua

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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch. A. N. Wilson

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