Evan Osnos Quotes
For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
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If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
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The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.
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Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work.
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Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.
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Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
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History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
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For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.
