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Quotations regarding 'History'

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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Charles Sumner, American Politician (1811-1874)
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
Kim Il Sung, North Korean Statesman (1912-1994)
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein, American Lawyer (1954-  )
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
Ethan Suplee, American Actor (1976-  )
I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.
Joan Sutherland, Australian Musician
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist (1624-1689)
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer (1943-  )
Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
George Takei, American Actor (1937-  )
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
Toru Takemitsu, Japanese Composer (1930-1996)
Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.
David Talbot, American Journalist
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
Quentin Tarantino, American Director (1963-  )
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
Allen Tate, American Poet (1899-1979)
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
Allen Tate, American Poet (1899-1979)
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Ellen Tauscher, American Politician (1951-  )
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. Taylor, British Historian (1906-1990)
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor, British Historian (1906-1990)
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor, British Historian (1906-1990)
Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.
Sachin Tendulkar, Indian Athlete (1973-  )
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist (1811-1863)
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
Twyla Tharp, American Dancer (1941-  )
 
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