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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.

Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

I got left for Mr. Bean. I found out a year after we split up. I opened the newspaper and there was a full-page story. No one else in the history of time has ever been left for Mr. Bean.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.

Art history is littered with work that involves light.

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.

I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

I don't know where streaming will go in the future. The analytics that we're seeing tell us that streaming is the next thing, and downloads are going down. I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.

I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Strip malls are history.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

We want to be proud when we look back on our history when we grow old.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

Louisiana has a storied history in filmmaking, with one of the world's most diverse settings for cinematic and television productions.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

The Thames is liquid history.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.