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The historian holds out a sieve and most of the past, the real past, goes through it. People’s feelings, people’s intimacies, they all go through the sieve, and all that’s left is a few scraps and lumps.
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Robert Lacy
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The Crown, Season 2: How True Is It?
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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
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Muhammad Ali
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The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
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God
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I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
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Dejan Stojanovic
,
The Sun Watches the Sun
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poem
Literature
Life
History
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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Stephen Dedalus
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Ulysses
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Nightmare
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History doesn't always move forward.
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Matt O'Brien
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The world’s losers are revolting, and Brexit is only the beginning
Brexit
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Prejudice
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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Hermann Hesse
,
My Belief: Essays on Life and Art
Words
Writing
Books
Literature
importance of words
writer
significance of writing
Communication
History
humanity
concept of humanity
importance of literature
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Adrienne Rich
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Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema (The New Middle Ages
History
The Impossibility Of Memory
Memory
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history, is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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Aldous Huxley
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Collected Essays
History
learning from history
lessons of history
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That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.
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Stephen King
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Mr. Mercedes
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Past Pain
history's pain
Memories
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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Stephen King
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Joyland
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Past Days
Memories
telling stories about the past
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fiction
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I've always liked the notion of meeting the great figures of history. But then I think: what if it's like high school and all the really cool dead people don't want to hang out with me? Mozart'll tell me he's busy but then later I'll see him out with Shakespeare and Lincoln!
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Niles Crane
(David Hyde Pierce)
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Frasier
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Season 4
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Death and the Dog
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History
high school
ditched
Mozart
Busy
shakespeare
lincoln
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It is not your privilege as a nation to speak of a distant past.
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Franklin Pierce
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Triumphant Mourner: The Tragic Dimension of Franklin Pierce
Privilege
nation
Speak
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Words
History
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The first creatures on earth to become aware of time were also the first creatures to smile.
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Time
History
Smile
Smiles
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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T. S. Eliot
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via GoodReads
Literature
literary purpose
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Feelings
emotions
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Revolution is the sense of the historical moment; it is changing everything that must be changed.
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Fidel Castro
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Speech
Revolution
History
Political Change
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We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.
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Stephen Hawking
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Mediocre GDC
human race
Time
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I wonder why nobody has ever called pre-historic cave paintings Graffiti. Maybe that’s precisely what it was back then.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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via Twitter
History
graffiti
cave paintings
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The past does not cease to exist simply because we lose our memory of it.
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Robert Pogue Harrison
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Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age
The Nightmare of History
The Joy of History
We Are History
History
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This is urgent. Continued failure to deal with our country’s race-based historical traumas dooms us to perpetually re-enact them.
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Fania Davis
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This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans—Right Now
Black Lives Matter
black live matter movement
racism
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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Richard L. Currier
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Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
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Technology
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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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Michelle Obama
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Michelle Obama in her Own Words: The Views and Values of America's First Lady
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Important
dialogue
Culture
History
generation
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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
—
Oprah Winfrey
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What I Know For Sure
Change
History
Opression
Women
strength
Courage
feminism
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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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Jasper Fforde
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Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels)
History
Past
Rewritten
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We CANNOT forget our history because we CANNOT repeat it. The world once came together to fight for peace. To fight for the innocent. To fight for freedom.
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Cassey Ho
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via www.instagram.com
History
remembering history
fight for goodness
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...black performers were carving out a life -- a significant, adventurous, amazing life, amidst all that. Why despite how tragic and ugly it often is, I love history. It's full of people who give the middle finger to adversity.
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Joy Reid
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via twitter.com
History
Black People
black performers
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