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What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. — Avery Brooks

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where. — Barbara Brown Taylor

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional. — Javier Bardem

...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history. — Mario Puzo

A time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done. — Jennifer Stone

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history? — Ahad Ha'am

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past. — Jennifer Donnelly

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going. — Ashwin Sanghi

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality. — Pieter Geyl

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life ... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered? — Kevin McCloud

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present. — Adam Garfinkle

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind. — Kim Stanley

There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are. — Hamid Dabashi

The past is what nourishes and sustains us. It is like going to work on a good breakfast. — Robert Stephen Parry

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more. — Richard Flanagan

What is called modern today, tomorrow will be history. What ever you allow to display, don't make of it a mystery. — A. Saleh

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity. — Jean Houston

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. — Rebecca Wells

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. — George R R Martin

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago. — Lewis H. Lapham

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. — James Baldwin

What is a history teacher? He's someone who teaches mistakes. — Graham Swift

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become. — Kate Elliott

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history.
(In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') — Paul Murray Kendall

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak? — Abigail Adams

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that. — Paulo Coelho

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin. — Simon Schama

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte — Napoleon Bonaparte

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery — Mike Tyson

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed. — John Kenneth Galbraith

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. — Carter G. Woodson

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. — Stephen Jay Gould

I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible. — Mitch Kapor

As Cicero would later declare, 'For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history?"3 — Adrian Goldsworthy

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer ... from a thousand questions? — G.F. Smith

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family? — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. — Victor Hugo

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv. — Finley Peter Dunne

Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime. — Joan Nestle

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. — Dave Grohl

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted. — Ralph Ellison

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves. — Ravi Zacharias

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. — Claude Vorilhon

A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe. — Richard B. Spence

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about' — Tia Carrere

What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history? — Thomas Carlyle

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. — Henry David Thoreau

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about. — Jodie Foster

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period. — George W. S. Trow

The history of PR is ... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality. — Stuart Ewen

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night. — Terence McKenna

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. — Alan Bennett

What is history, indeed, but a record of change? — Jawaharlal Nehru

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified. — Terence McKenna

[When it comes to writing]The first steps that are the hardest. Mine were accidental in a away. I wrote what I wanted on a blog & the rest is history. — A.J. Walters

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices. — Louise Bernikow

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. — Robert Breault

I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging. — Edward St. Aubyn

History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations. — Jason E. Hodges

What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power! — Bryant McGill

History is a loop. We're exactly where they stood twenty years ago. What's theirs is ours, what's ours will become theirs. — Sarah Addison Allen

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. — Walter Benjamin