T Quotes
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“The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.”
“The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.”
Source: The New Freedom to the New Deal, 1913-1939
“The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of the mountains, by the animals, the woods and jungles, and by the rivers. Our task is to know how to listen and interpret the messages that are sent to us. The original peoples knew how to read every movement of the clouds, the meaning of the winds, and they knew when violent downpours were coming... We have forgotten all that.”
“The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END”
“The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.”
“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
“The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.”
“The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government's assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors' needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.”
“The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.”
“The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.”
“The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.”
Source: Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book Three
“The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such a conspiracy (to destroy Christianity and obtain global power). The world-wide net-work of diabolical conspirators implements this plot against the Christian faith while Christians appear to be sound asleep. The Christian clergy appear to be more ignorant or more indifferent about this conspiracy than other Christians ... It seems so sad.”
“The history of the world is a whitewashed history.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“The history of the world is a whitewashed history, where great many facts are distorted to maintain white supremacy – such as Columbus discovering America or Gandhi liberating India – Gandhi didn’t liberate India, Subhas Chandra Bose did and Columbus never even set foot on America.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”
Source: Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.”
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.”
Source: The Philosophy of History
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
Source: The Philosophy of History
“The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves”
Source: Personality Development
“The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.”
Source: Personality Development
“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“The history of the world is the world's court of justice.”
“The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.”
“The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.”
Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc
“The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.”
“The History of the World travels from East to West, for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the beginning.”
Source: The Philosophy of History
“The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“The history of theatre is the history of first nights.”
Source: Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton
“The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.”
“The history of this keychain hates you.
My sigh in the background as you explain relational databases
hates you.
The goldfish of my genius hates you.
My aorta hates you. Also my ancestors.
A closed window is both a closed window and an obvious
symbol of how I hate you.”
“The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel than a scientific society, which naturally hesitates to admit into its printed records matters of uncertain value. Perhaps one may go further and say that a young author who believes himself capable of great things would usually do well to secure the favourable recognition of the scientific world by work whose scope is limited and whose value is easily judged, before embarking upon higher flights.”
“The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.”
“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
“The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.”
“The history of time is captured by poet, artist, writer, photographer…!”
“The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.”
Source: The pathology of politics: violence, betrayal, corruption, secrecy, and propaganda
“The history of trafficking for exploitation, although almost as old as the history of human civilization, has no place in a new advanced just world.”
“The history of veterinary medicine as a professional career, especially at its inception, is an account made up largely of the stories of Christian men and women convinced that the domain of animal health is a calling God cares about.”
Source: A Theology of Beasts: Christians and Veterinary Medicine
“The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.”
“The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.”
“The history of warfare is made up of moments, and decisions, that could have gone either way. -Erasmus”
Source: The Battle of Corrin
“The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”
Source: Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
“The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.”
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.”
“The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”
Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power
“The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.”
Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
“The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.”
“The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.”