6,230 Quotes About History
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- Author Harry F. MacDonald
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I came to, looking as together as one of Phil Spector’s hairdos. I felt like Clark Kent after a hard night on the kryptonite. I opened one eye. The morning sunlight slatted its way through the wooden shutters. The bed was strewn with naked bodies. A one-hundred-dollar bill was fluttering in the breeze, poised as it was, between a groupie’s buttocks. Even more concerning, a five-hundred-dollar bill was fluttering between mine.
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- Author Harry F. MacDonald
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At first, we were all watching butterflies and chasing rainbows and seeking out moonbeams. Then something changed. The viper got hold of the rainbows and roared into life. The high-octane tea went to work. Everyone went crackers.
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- Author Aberjhani
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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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- Author Richie Norton
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We’ve repeated history a few times and it seems to be getting worse before it gets better. And it will get better. A lot better. But it’s your choice. Get better, not bitter.
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- Author Cassandra Clare
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She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.
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- Author Jose Marti
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The first duty of a man is to think for himself
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- Author Rosa Luxemburg
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
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- Author Malcom X
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
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- Author Vladimir Lenin
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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