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This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war. — Charles Kennedy

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence — T. S. Eliot

The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution. — Robert Lawlor

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. — Fareed Zakaria

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. — Eldridge Cleaver

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. — Albert Camus

Lahore was a different world in its own; the busy life, the rich history, the colourful culture, and the unfamiliar faces — Javaria Waseem

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite. — Lucian Of Samosata

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. — John Darnielle

Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements. — Jonathan Frakes

Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own. — Nick Saban

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. — Adolf Hitler

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in. — John Greenleaf Whittier

.. how history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws. — Arundhati Roy

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history. — John Howard

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having
an approach and not an area of its own. — Leonard Krieger

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. — Desmond Tutu

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. — Meridel Le Sueur

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn

Had not history always been an inhumane, unscrupulous builder, mixing its mortar of lies, blood and mud? — Arthur Koestler

The history of the mind is not a linear history. Each epoch has its "Age of Reason" and its "Fall." The — John Knight Lundwall

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred, — Samantha Power

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past — John Berger

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history. — Nathaniel Philbrick

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities. — Jim Goldberg

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. — Indira Gandhi

One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end. — John Piper

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth. — James Harvey Robinson

The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with. — Simon R. Green

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. — Jeb Bush

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them. — George W. Bush

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces. — Vasily Grossman

The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps. — Mary Shelley

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. — Jon Ronson

God honored and blessed America as few nations in history. However, in recent years the nation has been moving away from its religious heritage. — Billy Graham

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. — Dag Hammarskjold

Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The universe stood still and the universe continued on its path, travelling through endless time. — D.B. Nielsen

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe. — Christopher Hill

In writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its governor ... — Philip Pullman

It is only a woman who can make a man feel like a 'superhero' or 'inadequate'.
Its her attention and admiration that a man desperately seeks! — Sanjai Velayudhan

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. — Eleanor Antin

He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect. — Gish Jen

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have. — Gary Numan

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. — Theodore Roosevelt

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history. — Robert Dallek

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience. — Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture. — M.H. Abrams

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. — Charles Dickens

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. — F. Sionil Jose

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind. — Ada Louise Huxtable

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature. — David Byrne

History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice. — Tracy K. Smith

Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed. — Auliq Ice

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes. — Bernard-Henri Levy

about everything, about the whole history of the world and all its racism and the unfairness of all of it. — Nicola Yoon

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that. — Ricky Williams

All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further. — Bryant McGill

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming
American. — Luc Sante

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. — Vladimir Lenin

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington

Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs. — Wendy Kopp

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. — Roy Basler

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods. — Deb Caletti

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski

In the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers. — Madame De Stael

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. — Aldous Huxley

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. — Derek Walcott

I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture. — Kyle Abraham

History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly. — Daniel Walker Howe

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history. — Henry Petroski

History flows neither from the past nor to the future alone: it reverses its course and, when you get right down to it, flows from all the presents. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. — Wilhelm Reich

We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed. — Mark Wallace

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. — Douglas Hurd

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. — Elizabeth Warren

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. — Queen Elizabeth II

The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers. — Juliette Gordon Low

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. — Robert Penn Warren

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette. — Timothy Levitch

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. — Karl Jaspers

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. — Sean Scully

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period. — George W. S. Trow

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future. — Henry Clausen

History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass. — Mark Rippetoe

I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular. — Kate Williams

Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history. — Jordan Maxwell

The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future. — Jim Lee

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday? — E.A. Bucchianeri

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. — John Moody

There's a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect. — R.C. Sproul