Quotes and sayings about tag  history

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

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• Love

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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• Hope

The Master said, A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.(Analects 2.11)

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• Wisdom

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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• Humor

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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• Education

Do you think we can be friends? I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. Probably not, but we can pretend.

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• Love

Vane grabbed me. DuLac, let’s chat.Chat. British-speak for Stand still while I yell at you.

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• Love

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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• Education

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

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• Education

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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• Truth

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

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• Truth

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

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• Writing

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

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• Hope

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

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• Time

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

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• Love