History Quotes
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I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
Ian Caldwell
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If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages.
Clemantine Wamariya
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.
R. A. Salvatore
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It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
Martin Fleischmann
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When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
Dave Foley
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I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.
Ban Ki-moon
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I think some of the best music throughout the actual history of music itself came from cultures where they're not really looking for outside themes. It's developed from their hometowns - it's what they love and what they love to do.
Jon Bellion
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
Walter Jon Williams
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By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.
Chris Crutcher
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I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
Hannah Ware
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Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.
Bill Foster
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The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Mary Douglas
