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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
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
- Nov 07, 2020
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aberrations in monsoon behaviour are not uncommon, having been with us throughout our agricultural history.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
We teach the karate methodology, bringing back the history of the martial art, the attacks that stopped being used when the martial art became a sport and that my brother and I use in the cage.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.
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- Nov 07, 2020