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History Making Quotes

Gertrude Stein quote: "History takes time. History makes memory."
History takes time. History makes memory. Gertrude Stein
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two. Major Owens
Russell Baker quote: "A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's..."
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. Russell Baker
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes. Arthur Koestler
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. Sarah Vowell
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth. Howard Zinn
Alan Bennett quote: "History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a..."
History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so. Alan Bennett
History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma Aldous Huxley
History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living. Isaac Asimov
Stephenie Meyer quote: "History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It..."
History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed. Stephenie Meyer
Stephen King quote: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it..."
History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music. Stephen King
History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long. Christopher Bond
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "People who make history know nothing about history. You can..."
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Joseph Stalin quote: "It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes..."
It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes. Joseph Stalin
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain of History and of our lives, in the eternal 'current situation.' He goes on talking, calmly or passionately. He goes on talking about something simple: his revolutionary practice, the practice of class struggle, about what makes it possible to act on history...not to demonstrate that revolutions are inevitable, but to make them in our unique present. Louis Althusser

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