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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
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
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- Nov 07, 2020