Best Histories Quotations
153 Histories quotes by 143 unique authors
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The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white…
— Robert Agostinelli
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the…
— J. Philippe Rushton
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Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These…
— Richard Moss
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is…
— Thomas Merton
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In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even…
— Josip Novakovich
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Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much…
— Criss Jami
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
— Honore de Balzac
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Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have…
— Blaise Pascal
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
— Oliver Cromwell
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here…
— Ralph Ellison
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have…
— Charles Krauthammer
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
— Barbara Kruger
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Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories,…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
— Alexander Pope
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the…
— Karl Popper
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Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data…
— James Surowiecki
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In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower…
— Matt Taibbi
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As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans…
— Evgeny Morozov
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight…
— Maya Angelou
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If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your…
— Umberto Eco
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We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of…
— Michael Ondaatje
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If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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