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Good History Quotes

Ken Burns quote: "Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we..."
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. Ken Burns
James Buchan quote: "If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally..."
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. James Buchan
Thomas Hardy quote: "My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace..."
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Thomas Hardy
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. Sarah Vowell
Mae West quote: "Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in..."
Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag. Mae West
Jeane Kirkpatrick quote: "History is a better guide than good intentions."
History is a better guide than good intentions. Jeane Kirkpatrick
Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled. Richard Branson
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King jr.
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost. Robert Penn Warren
I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' Samuel L. Jackson
Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling is and remains that man is the free being in a world of unfreedom, the external miracle worker whether he does good or ill, the astonishing exception, the superbeast and almost-god, the meaning of creation which cannot be thought away, the solution of the cosmic riddle, the mighty ruler over nature and the despiser of it, the creature... Friedrich Nietzsche
Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. Sarah Vowell
Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."Not in the history books," said Valentine."Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father. Orson Scott Card
There was no control except the "mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series of notes-- then you should never have heard him at all. He was never recorded. He stayed away while others moved into wax history, electronic history, those who said later that Boldon broke the path. It was just as important to watch him stretch and wheel around the last notes or to watch nerves jumping under... Michael Ondaatje
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. Thomas Sowell

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