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Lion Feuchtwanger | history

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

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history Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn | history

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

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Bill Nighy history

Bill Nighy | history

I don’t seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn’t help me. Precedents don’t inform my experience.

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Rick James | history

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn’t have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling… I’m the most sampled artist in history.

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Jonathan Sacks | history

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

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history Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann | history

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

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton | history

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

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history Thabo Mbeki

Thabo Mbeki | history

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

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Edwin Powell Hubble | history

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

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Jonathan Sacks | history

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, ‘What happened?’ but rather, ‘How then shall I live?’ And it’s only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

Pink office chair. Full irish driving licence for sale. The obsession method should be viewed as a potential tool for self improvement, not a magic bullet.