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History
«There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword»
Author: Benjamin Dana
| About:
History
| Keywords:
exception, History of, innovation, opposition, sword, The History, The History of, The Sword
«There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.»
Author: Camilo Jose Cela
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History
«There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments»
Author: Joseph Anderson
| About:
History,
Nations
| Keywords:
customs, embodied, embodies, institutions, In books, monuments, recorded, strengthens
«The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Creativity,
History
| Keywords:
answerable, Creative Writing, Eden, evidences, extracts, sociology
«There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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Civilization,
History,
Tyranny,
War
| Keywords:
aggression, historic, imperfect, inheritance, refusal, situations
«Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream»
«The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.»