“no one has ever built them before in written history. (But much of history is unwritten. Remember this.)” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt Copy Share Image
During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in control of the… — Scott Nearing Copy Share Image
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I… — Preston Brooks Copy Share Image
“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
“History is supposed to be an accurate, and full, account of what actually happened. Politics is never about what actually happened. Politics… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our… — Rebecca Walker Copy Share Image
“hypocrisy, fraud, idleness—their worn-out relics, their threadbare worship, and their lack of invention. When did anything good last come from a monastery?… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
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