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John Moody on history
Author: John Moody“Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.” -John Moody
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Andrea Jung on history
Author: Andrea Jung“I feel like I’m part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, ‘I’ve got to do a better job.’” -Andrea Jung
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Eric Alterman on history
Author: Eric Alterman“While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.” -Eric Alterman
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Lev Grossman on history
Author: Lev Grossman“When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.” -Lev Grossman
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Kim Novak on history
Author: Kim Novak“Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It’s like you’re touching the essence, the very substance of life.” -Kim Novak
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Stockwell Day on history
Author: Stockwell Day“Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.” -Stockwell Day
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Queen Elizabeth II on history
Author: Queen Elizabeth II“I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.” -Queen…
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Jackson Browne on history
Author: Jackson Browne“Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country.” -Jackson Browne
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Stephen Jay Gould on history
Author: Stephen Jay Gould“With copious evidence ranging from Plato’s haughtiness to Beethoven’s tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.” -Stephen Jay Gould
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Krist Novoselic on history
Author: Krist Novoselic“But whenever history is in the making, there’s some kind of intangible feeling.” -Krist Novoselic
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Andrew Weil on history
Author: Andrew Weil“Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.” -Andrew Weil
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Antonia Fraser on history
Author: Antonia Fraser“I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women’s history.” -Antonia Fraser
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Lynn Abbey on history
Author: Lynn Abbey“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.” -Lynn Abbey
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Saul Williams on history
Author: Saul Williams“Why shouldn’t rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it’s this old idea of containment – that rappers, because they’re black, can’t and shouldn’t aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.” -Saul Williams
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Ayelet Waldman on history
Author: Ayelet Waldman“As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.” -Ayelet Waldman
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Jo Bonner on history
Author: Jo Bonner“Never in our country’s history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.” -Jo Bonner
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Matt Groening on history
Author: Matt Groening“Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we’ve done that before.” -Matt Groening
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Robert Caro on history
Author: Robert Caro“I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.” -Robert Caro
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Joseph Brodsky on history
Author: Joseph Brodsky“The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.” -Joseph Brodsky
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Ed Koch on history
Author: Ed Koch“If you listen to Giuliani, it’s like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I’m not part of the history. Bloomberg’s not part of the history. It’s like, he did it. He’s the only one. That’s why he’s a little crazy.” -Ed Koch
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B. H. Liddell Hart on history
Author: B. H. Liddell Hart“Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.” -B. H. Liddell Hart
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James Lee Burke on history
Author: James Lee Burke“We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we’ve been in wars ever since. We’re not a pacific people.” -James Lee Burke
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Zoe Saldana on history
Author: Zoe Saldana“I’m so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.” -Zoe Saldana
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Julien Benda on history
Author: Julien Benda“And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.” -Julien Benda
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John Guare on history
Author: John Guare“We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?” -John Guare