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The History Of Quotes (page 39)

Jean Bodin quote: "The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom."
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom. Jean Bodin
W. H. Auden quote: "History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the..."
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. W. H. Auden
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. David Attenborough
Katharine Anthony quote: "The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but..."
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? Katharine Anthony
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. Anita Desai
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe. Kenneth Scott Latourette
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. Howard Nemerov
The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find. Terry Prachett
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. Potter Stewart
Mao Zedong quote: "The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the..."
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. Mao Zedong
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. Erica Jong
Salman Rushdie quote: "History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could..."
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. Salman Rushdie
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. Winston Churchill
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings. Wendell Berry
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "the sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour..."
....the sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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