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History

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. – Rosa Luxemburg

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. – Bruce Springsteen

History passes the final judgment. – Sidney Poitier

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. – Ibrahim Babangida

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. – Gene Tierney

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow. – Jonathan Sacks

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. – Thomas Mann

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities. – Thabo Mbeki

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. – Edwin Powell Hubble

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world. – George Galloway

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. – Lion Feuchtwanger

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that. – Wallace Shawn

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it. – Ric Keller

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. – Michael N. Castle

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. – Tom Osborne

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products. – Shigeru Miyamoto

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. – John Polkinghorne

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. – Rand Paul