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“We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we dont see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.”
“Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.”
“Whats this war called again?The Hundred Years War.Hmmmm, got a bad feeling about this one.”
“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
“It is hard to remember.Remember what?All that goes into the making of any one moment we live. There are things one must try to remember. Do you know what is the hardest thing to remember?No, Adam s...”
“Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not merely in experiencing history but in creating it can have no sense of destiny. And what kind of...”
“But, the stultifying lingo aside, the question I raise is a vital one for us all, we are all stuck with trying to find the meaning of our lives, and the only thing we have to work on, or with, is o...”
“I love learning. I love history. But there's history in everything. Every building, everybody you talk to. It's not limited to libraries and museums. I think people who spend their lives in school ...”
“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from...”
“If the ravens leave the Tower, Britain will fall.”
“flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mothers crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of the injustices perpetrated by the former imperial power. Until it is returnedat least as a symboli...”
“So, whats the status? said Ira as he pulled himself down to his couch.Will is turning into a starship, Hugo replied, clearly only half in jest. Were about to watch history in the making.”
“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy....”
“One UniVerse for the LivingWhile palaces attest to the power of men,And monuments mark their wars,Little remains of the women who've been- Except for the sons that they bore.But the voices of women...”
“The problem is that history is not a dialectic progression but a biome, a swamp where ideas chase each other around and wallow and where drupelets of their larvae cluster and then hatch to devour s...”
“This is Shakespeare and Company, it's the most famous bookstore in the world." She pointed to the shelves that reached the ceiling. "Surely you have something on the feudal system or the court of t...”
“Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.”
“Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past!”
“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”
“History is not the past it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”
