History Quotes
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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It isn’t that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history’s meaning.
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
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That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
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I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.
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Before we can apply the tools of anthropology to reconstruct the real history of money, we need to understand what's wrong with the conventional account.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
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History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.
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Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.
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I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
