#history

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. ↗

— John Moody

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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ↗

— Washington Irving

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In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

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After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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