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Quotations by Subject: History (17 quotes)

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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men.: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
History is too serious to be left to historians.: Ian Macleod, in The Observer (July 16, 1961)
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.: Josh Greenberg, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006

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