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" The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. "
Virginia Woolf
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" I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. "
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" To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. "
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" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "
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" The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. "
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" We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America. "
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" Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "
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" In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. "
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" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "
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" A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. "
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" Time is my greatest enemy. "
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" The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. "
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" How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected. "
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" Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. "
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" When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history. "
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" No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. "
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" History should be written as philosophy. "
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" The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history. "
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" Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. "
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" The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. "
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" I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. "
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" The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not. "
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" The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. "
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" I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing. "
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" Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. "
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" The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. "
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" Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. "
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