Quotes and sayings about tag  history

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

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• Love

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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• Hope

The Master said, A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.(Analects 2.11)

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• Wisdom

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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• Humor

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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• Education

Do you think we can be friends? I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. Probably not, but we can pretend.

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• Love

Vane grabbed me. DuLac, let’s chat.Chat. British-speak for Stand still while I yell at you.

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• Love

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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• Education

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

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• Education

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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• Truth

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

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• Truth

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

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• Writing

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

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• Hope

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

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• Time

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

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• Love

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

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• Humor

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

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• Hope

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

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• Hope

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

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• Hope

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

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• Wisdom

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

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• Life

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

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• Truth

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

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• Truth

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

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• Wisdom

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

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• Life Lessons

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

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• Love

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

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• Motivational

How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.

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• Motivational

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

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• Motivational

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

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• Motivational