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It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political… — Howard Zinn
It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We don't know their… — Jen Hatmaker
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. — Thomas Carlyle
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the… — Augustus William Hare
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are… — Thomas B. Macaulay
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. — Samuel Johnson
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to… — Isaac Asimov
It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know. — Ali Smith
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in… — Spencer Bachus
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both. — John Baldessari
A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all… — Walter Raleigh
Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly… — Ashley Kahn
Human beings disappear; their histories remain. — Bernard Stiegler
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting… — Israel Zangwill
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life… — Rebecca Harding Davis
What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books… — Francois Mauriac
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. — Thomas Malthus
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing… — Ron Rash
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. — Raymond Queneau
I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really… — Leonard Orr
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present… — Cecil Rhodes
Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His… — Austin Grossman
Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness, — Mia Couto

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