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Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.
The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.
There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.
I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.
Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
'The Last Kingdom''s got its roots in history, and it's a lot grittier. It doesn't have the 'Game of Thrones' gloss.
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.