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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
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yoga is not about the history of yoga. Yoga is not about being in a sacred community of the initiated few. Yoga is about uniting inward, which takes place in the present, not the past, in each and every moment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is more interesting than most people think.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sciences were not my favourite subjects at school. I preferred English, drama, music, and history.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love going into junk shops, picking up something that looks like it's got a bit of history to it, then sanding it down and reviving it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020