"History has to be rewritten because history is……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in."
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- An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of… — Wilhelm Wundt
- The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these… — Hippocrates
- He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents… — Albert Speer
- We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans… — Murray Bookchin
- Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that… — Avicenna
- The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior)… — Aubrey Daniels
- We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking… — Heidi Julavits
- We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand… — Maggie O'Farrell
- I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you… — Hillary Jordan
- You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back. — Patricia Briggs
- I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only… — Tennessee Williams