C. V. Wedgwood Quotes
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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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.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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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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History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
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I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
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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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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.
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I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.
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Caffeine is hard on an empty system, so I try not to do it unless it's to get my heart rate up. If you drink caffeine 15 minutes before the workout, it can make it more effective. So I'll do tea or coffee after breakfast.
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You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
