#history

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#comes #ends #finds #history #long

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience. ↗

— Juice Newton

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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#career #fortunate #history #hole #i

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. ↗

— George Orwell

#fading #history #into #lies #objective

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#behavior #capitalist #career #choice #dress

History is information. Memory is part of your identity. ↗

— David Miliband

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I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory. ↗

— David Miliband

#hebrew #history #i #i do #memory

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions. ↗

— David Miliband

#end #history #human #human history #in the end

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

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