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Genevieve Gorder on history
Author: Genevieve Gorder“The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don’t, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened… and it happened because of a beautiful idea.” -Genevieve Gorder
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Caroline Kennedy on history
Author: Caroline Kennedy“People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.” -Caroline Kennedy
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Charles Henry Parkhurst on history
Author: Charles Henry Parkhurst“Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.” -Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on history
Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer“In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.” -Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Joyce Carol Oates on history
Author: Joyce Carol Oates“It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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Dick Wolf on history
Author: Dick Wolf“When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, ‘Who are these people? Why should we watch them?” -Dick Wolf
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Jane Goodall on history
Author: Jane Goodall“War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.” -Jane Goodall
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Jeffrey Kluger on history
Author: Jeffrey Kluger“There’s no one place a virus goes to die – but that doesn’t make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.” -Jeffrey Kluger
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Ellen Glasgow on history
Author: Ellen Glasgow“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.” -Ellen Glasgow
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Paul Simon on history
Author: Paul Simon“Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.” -Paul Simon
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Jack Nicklaus on history
Author: Jack Nicklaus“I’ve been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.” -Jack Nicklaus
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King Abdullah II on history
Author: King Abdullah II“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.” -King Abdullah II
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Nancy Pelosi on history
Author: Nancy Pelosi“The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.” -Nancy Pelosi
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Phyllis George on history
Author: Phyllis George“Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.” -Phyllis George
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Shimon Peres on history
Author: Shimon Peres“The Jews’ greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.” -Shimon Peres
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Noam Chomsky on history
Author: Noam Chomsky“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.” -Noam Chomsky
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Umberto Eco on history
Author: Umberto Eco“From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.” -Umberto Eco
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Leonardo DiCaprio on history
Author: Leonardo DiCaprio“I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I…
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Giacomo Casanova on history
Author: Giacomo Casanova“The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.” -Giacomo Casanova
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Steve King on history
Author: Steve King“Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.” -Steve King
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Marc Jacobs on history
Author: Marc Jacobs“I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they’ve been waiting or whether it’s raining or it’s snowing or whatever.” -Marc Jacobs
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Cecil Beaton on history
Author: Cecil Beaton“Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.” -Cecil Beaton
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Charlie Kaufman on history
Author: Charlie Kaufman“There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.” -Charlie Kaufman