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" Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. "
Mark Kurlansky
Romantic
History
City
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" It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. "
Terry Eagleton
Compassion
Lie
Values
" One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. "
Stephen Kinzer
History
World
Changes
" When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel. "
Rachel Kushner
Relationship
Window
History
" The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. "
Joseph Brodsky
First
Consciousness
Real
" I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up. "
Alan Bennett
Find
Doing
History
" I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. "
Kara Walker
Black
People
History
" A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. "
Camille Paglia
Over
Still
1960s
" Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. "
Norodom Sihanouk
Place
Dishonesty
Time
" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "
George Santayana
History
Never
People
" The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. "
Virginia Woolf
Interesting
Men
Story
" The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. "
Malcolm X
Mistake
Me
White
" While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. "
Mattie Stepanek
Celebrate
Work
History
" There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. "
Harry S Truman
You
Nothing
New
" The main thing is to make history, not to write it. "
Otto von Bismarck
Write
Thing
Main
" Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. "
H. L. Mencken
Unsuccessful
History
Historian
" As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. "
Kevin Rudd
History
Australia
Culture
" And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. "
Lord Acton
Control
Remember
Power
" I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be. "
Vanilla Ice
Motto
History
Goals
" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "
Lynn Nottage
Past
History
Love
" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "
Aldous Huxley
Important
History
Learn
" I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. "
Walton Goggins
Fly
Bring
Old
" All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. "
Friedrich Engels
Class
Development
History
" I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. "
Alan Moore
Construction
History
Place
" There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy. "
David Grinspoon
Life
Hot
History
" A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Constitution
History
Tradition
" There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame. "
Anne Donovan
Winning
College
Gold
" If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American
White
You
" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "
Alan Watts
America
People
Universe
" It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. "
Vladimir Lenin
History
Time
Progress
" Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history. "
Guy Standing
Water
Fishing
Rights