“I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.”
— Enya
Author: Enya
Category: history
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Category: history
Watch the History Channel if you want
“Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.”
— Emily Blunt
Author: Emily Blunt
Category: history
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Nothing which is True or beautiful or
“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Category: history
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Libraries are not made, they grow.
“Libraries are not made, they grow.”
— Augustine Birrell
Author: Augustine Birrell
Category: history
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of
“In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.”
— Edward de Bono
Author: Edward de Bono
Category: history
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The great drama of Russian history has
“The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.”
— Fareed Zakaria
Author: Fareed Zakaria
Category: history
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for
“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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History is a cyclic poem written by
“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: history
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and
“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
— Aristotle
Author: Aristotle
Category: history
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty
“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”
— Wendell Phillips
Author: Wendell Phillips
Category: history
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Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and
“Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.”
— Daniel Libeskind
Author: Daniel Libeskind
Category: history
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