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Letter "H" » History
«History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.»
Author: David C. McCullough
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature,
Reading
| Keywords:
attainments, betrayals, depravities, depths, heroes, monsters
«History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.»
«History is still happening»
Author: Godfried Bomans
| About:
History
«History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.»
«History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.»
Author: Don Rittner
| About:
History
«History - its what those bitter old men write»
Author: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
| About:
History
«Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.'»
«Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Humanity,
Logic,
Mankind,
Mathematics,
Morality,
Philosophy,
Poets
| Keywords:
contend, Histories, moral philosophy, natural history, natural philosophy, rhetoric, witty
«Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.»
«History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
General Government, informs
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