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In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. -- Rick Perlstein
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. -- Tom Osborne
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. -- Earl Browder
Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage. -- Maximillian Degenerez
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience. -- Antonio Damasio
An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper. -- Nathan Rabin
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces. -- William Barclay
In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad. -- Moby
If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. -- Madeleine Albright
More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation. -- Martin Jacques
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths. -- Radhanath Swami
I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you. -- Jon Katz
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance. -- Polybius
Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents. -- Wangechi Mutu
Most of us get our history through story. -- Yann Martel
History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same. -- Tony Judt
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. -- Thomas Jefferson
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. -- Richard Brautigan
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. -- Gustave Flaubert
Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history. -- John Ridley
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. -- Adam Weishaupt
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. -- Johan Huizinga
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. -- Bobby Jindal
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us. -- George W. Bush
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. -- Lech Walesa
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. -- Jeff Vandermeer
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. -- Eugene Jarecki
There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up. -- Nikki Sixx
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. -- Miller Williams
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. -- Ernest Dimnet
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. -- Anselm Kiefer
History teaches us hope. -- Robert E. Lee
History is simply what's behind us. -- Brad Meltzer
It is history that teaches us to hope. -- Robert E. Lee
History conspires to make us who we are. -- Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
the history of melancholia includes all of us. -- Charles Bukowski
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
There is room in history for all of us. -- Alexander McCall Smith
God does give us the history of his people. -- Jennifer Rothschild
History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself. -- Geoffrey Ward
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History is what the evidence compels us to believe. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. -- Karl Marx
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. -- Thomas Jefferson
History make us smarter. Learn it before being to late. -- Ricardo Freire
History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. -- Jean Bodin
History does not belong to us; we belong to it. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
In the future history will be made only by us. -- George W. Bush
We are exactly what our history made us to be. -- Stephen Richards
Each of us is born with a history already in place -- Walter Dean Myers
Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us. -- Henry David Thoreau
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. -- Dolores Huerta
If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. -- Julian Barnes
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice. -- Ludwig Borne
If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing. -- Peter Ustinov
History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism. -- George Gilder
The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history. -- Hal Sparks
the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle -- Saul Williams
History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless. -- Chalmers Johnson
And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn't mention us -- Regina Spektor
With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing. -- Keisha Buchanan
Our own story is even more important for us to know than history. -- Kristin Cashore
The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation. -- Terence McKenna
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love. -- Mason Cooley
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. -- Will Durant
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. -- Guy Vanderhaeghe
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. -- James Bryce
The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife. -- Lord Acton
History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories. -- Mike Colter
If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving. -- James Redfield
Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the invaluable mental power we call judgment. -- Sam Wineburg
Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the "invaluable mental power we call judgment. -- Sam Wineburg
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. -- Kenneth Clark
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. -- Philip Gulley
History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. -- Jean-Henri Fabre
History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children. -- Nelson Mandela
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing. -- Sting
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman. -- Amber Garibay
Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth. -- Hillary Clinton
History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up. -- Paul Rusesabagina
History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history. -- George Clooney
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."(History Will Teach Us Nothing) -- Sting
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. -- Buchi Emecheta
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. -- Ludwig von Mises
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. -- Kurt Vonnegut
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. -- Hilary Mantel
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. -- David Weinberger
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. -- Ronald Reagan
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. -- Lucy Larcom
Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny. -- Steve Maraboli
Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. -- Robin G. Collingwood
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything. -- Michael Lewis
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. -- John G. D. Clark
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson
Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new. -- Rob Bell
If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone. -- Mario Puzo
So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery. -- Tupac Shakur
God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name. -- David Platt
The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place. -- Wei Jingsheng
History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men. -- Andrew Smith
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. -- Douglas Hurd
Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it. -- Axel Alonso
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. -- Voltaire
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. -- Robert Aumann
Each of us play a unique role in the history of life. What legacy do you want to live behind? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today. -- Donnie Wahlberg
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. -- Agnes Repplier
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people. -- Bashar al-Assad
Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day - -- Emily Dickinson

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