- Beautiful
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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
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.
- Finally
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
- Farming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my humble opinion, propaganda is one of the most evil tools humans have used against humans throughout history to justify wars, justify atrocities, justify evil. ISIS has taken it to a new extreme.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of everyday people rising up to fight against evil to protect their families - it's a story that we've seen play out throughout history and across the world today.
- Goes
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- Nov 07, 2020
History goes in cycles.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020