3631 History Quotes for You to Enjoy

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. Donald Kagan

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Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. Donald Kagan

History Accident Born Without Prisoners Were Where

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals. Donald Tusk

History Overcome Goals Our Must Poles Obstructing Contemporary Also Understand

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel. Donald Tusk

History Country One Country Complexity Understand Israel Trusted

God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions. Donald Wuerl

God History Down Those Write Always Revelation Been Then Who Deeds Actions Interpret Interpretations

I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life. Doris Kearns Goodwin

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge. Doris Kearns Goodwin

History Country Transformation Our Emerge Seems Remarkable Take Altered Occurs Handful Times Begins The History Of Place

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio. Doug Liman

Me History Scared Posterity More Studio Make Am Than Movies

Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and the worst disaster at sea in United States naval history. I go down to the lake, and I wonder: How would I have survived what they experienced? Doug Stanton

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Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. Douglas Alexander

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I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man. Douglas Booth

Love History Man People Churchill Favorite Favorite People He Study Fascinating

History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president. Douglas Brinkley

War Great History Win President He Also Up Polls Near

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. Douglas Hurd

History Politicians Those Signposts Favour Follow Direction Only Point Which While Themselves Should Noticing Profess Who Wary

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. Douglas Rushkoff

Work Environmental History Drive Single Pleasant Progressive Toss Tossing Impact Bottle Takes Environmentally Like Envision Altogether Shirt Iron May Being Burned Fuel Plastic Fossil Fossil Fuel Trash Bin Actually Second

In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures. Douglas Rushkoff

History Better Digital Sense Predict Universe Market Our Sold Guide Futures Networking Likes Narrative Snapshot Friends Itself Personal Current Being Order Information Social Succeeded Product Graph Moment Researchers Profile

I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties. Douglas Southall Freeman

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since. Drew Gilpin Faust

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I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed. Dylan Moran

History Big Changed Press Consumer Had Journalism Over Always How Been Years America American The History Of Interest

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. E. O. Wilson

Truth History Science Passion Same Taught Anything Us Desire

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. Earl Browder

Leadership History Struggle Only Could Open Knew Leaders Maintain Moscow Doing Influence Against Succeeded Communist Mao Ever Two

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. Earl Browder

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