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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very good at history, often scoring 99 out of 100, whereas in mathematics, I usually scored zero.
- Human Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
- Charter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and the less attention I give to the argument. Arguments come and go.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn toward social history, which meant the history of the voiceless and faceless. But the public at large never embraced the idea that these dead white guys should be abandoned.
- Daily Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is not something most people have to do every day. Their daily lives are much more influenced by job opportunities, whether the country is in a recession or a boom period. If you really want to understand what drives American history, look at the economic... side.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
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- Nov 07, 2020