- People
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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
- Tea
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anglo-Saxons have a view that history is ordered and chronological, and I think that fed into the development of the realist middle-class novel. You know, the ones you read on your sofa with a nice cup of tea.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dream of Poland becoming a modern society that is defined not by the crippling nature of history, but by our individual achievements, a sense of our own self-worth and ideas for the future.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed against its minorities.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am meeting Diaspora Jews all the time, and we are developing programmes to prevent distancing. We have a joint history, but we cannot take matters for granted. Israel is home for all of us, and part of the beauty of the country is its social diversity.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020