Best Human History Proverbs
304 Human History quotes by 239 unique authors
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Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories.…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For…
— Jared Diamond
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That,…
— Sylvia Earle
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love…
— Tom Hiddleston
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history,…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
— Charles Krauthammer
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In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.
— David Miliband
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in…
— M. Scott Peck
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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens…
— Ayn Rand
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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
— Condoleezza Rice
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I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
— Marco Rubio
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Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply…
— Marco Rubio
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This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both…
— Marco Rubio
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As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing…
— Kevin Rudd
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
— Salman Rushdie
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Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
— Paul Ryan
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Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
— Michael Shermer
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning…
— David Suzuki
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