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How to use the word History in a Sentence?

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

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2 months ago

A history of the Conquest written by the conqueror

Walter LaFeber

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4 months ago

Who told you black isn't beautiful? They spoke ignorance, but I know the truth lies in the depths of our history, culture, and the undeniable strength of our melanin-rich skin.

Christen Kuikoua

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4 months ago

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.

Manly P. Hall

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4 months ago

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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5 months ago

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

Carl J. Friedrich

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5 months ago

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.

Ayn Rand

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5 months ago

History is a sagacious narrator, softly imparting its wisdom to those who are willing to glean lessons from the echoes of bygone eras.

Aloo Denish Obiero

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5 months ago

I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time. But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation.

Joe Biden

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6 months ago

Throughout history, poetry has played a crucial role in preserving cultural heritage and oral traditions.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

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6 months ago

Poetry has played a crucial role in raising awareness and inspiring activism throughout history.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

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6 months ago

As many cultures use poetry to pass down stories, myths, and oral traditions from one generation to the next. Poetry serves as a cultural repository, preserving the history, values, and traditions of a society.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

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6 months ago

Poetry serves as a cultural repository, preserving the history, values, and traditions of a society.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

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.

Doug Bandow

added by Normando
11 months ago

These are healthy children. With no prior significant medical history that would make them more prone…there wasn’t any known immunosuppression or anything like that.

Taryn Bragg

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We’re talking about giving patients access to treatments that show the best efficacy profile in the entire 30-year history of our field.

Fyodor Urnov

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This was a bill that was one of many targeting the LGBTQ community in Montana. This legislature has systematically attacked that community. We have seen bills targeting our art forms, our books, our history and our health care, and I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring and that I have first-hand experience knowing about. I have friends that have taken their lives because of these bills.

Zooey Zephyr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I knew going into this debate that millions of people were going to be watching, and it wasn’t even just for Pennsylvanians watching, this would be kind of national … [it] would be living in history.

Barreto Fetterman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Throughout the FTC’s history we have had to adapt our enforcement to changing technology, our obligation is to do what we’ve always done, which is to apply the tools we have to these changing technologies … [and] not be scared off by this idea that this is a new, revolutionary technology.

The FTC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

UMG’s success has been, in part, due to embracing new technology and putting it to work for our artists — as we have been doing with our own innovation around AI for some time already, however, the training of generative AI using our artists’ music … begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on.

Universal Music Group

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So, we’re using a foreign company that is owned by Venezuelans who are close to – were close to (Hugo) Chávez, are now close to (Nicolás) Maduro, have a history. They were founded as a company to fix elections, they have a terrible record, and they are extremely hackable.

Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Increased financing through the capital markets will require the scale, multi-asset capabilities and excellence in portfolio construction that BlackRock consistently delivers across market cycles, throughout our history, moments of market dislocation and disruption have served as inflection points for BlackRock.

Jamie Dimon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My history doesn’t have to be my destiny.

Jully Black

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

When I was in Kenya, the guy who took my bag (at the airport) was Black. The guy who flew the plane was Black. The president was Black, as a Black person from an African country, you haven’t seen the long history of oppression, the long history of social injustice that those of us who were born here, who are descendants of enslaved people, have seen.

Karsonya Wise Whitehead

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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