Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.
Anne Burack SayreStichwörter: imagination history funny mystery delightful birthday children-s elementary-school anne-burack-sayre juvenile-fiction sister-and-brother-team targets-3rd-5th-graders
Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?
Galinda GlindaStichwörter: humor past history random funny wicked
...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine.
Regina O'MelvenyStichwörter: history treasures art-history book-lovers-addiction
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.
Kate Atkinsonالتاريخ يعيد نفسه مرة أو مرتين لكن التليفزيون ألف مرة
أنيس منصورStichwörter: history television
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say?
David GraeberStichwörter: politics history democracy community
Românii aveau însă nevoie de o istorie eroică, tot așa cum aveau nevoie de origini mărețe, pentru a compensa frustrările prezentului.
Lucian BoiaStichwörter: history nationalism
Țăranii, în orice caz cei cu oarecare stare, nu aveau niciun motiv să se lase atrași de ideologia comunistă: doreau să-și rotunjească proprietățile, nicidecum să le piardă; țăranii săraci, pe de altă parte, erau și teribil de incluți, mulți dintre ei analfabeți, așa încât prea puțini aveau tentații ideologice, comuniste sau de orice altă natură. [...] Nici n-aveau un nivel intelectual de natură să contracareze impactul ideologic al comunismului; „învățătura” comunistă s-a așezat la ei pe un teren virgin. Au fost ușor captați de comunism. Li s-a oferit o promovare socială aproape instantanee la care nici n-ar fi visat. Au avut și satisfacția de a vedea cum în timp ce ei urcă, alții, care față de ei fuseseră până atunci atât de sus, coboară sau se prăbușesc (e și asta o delectare care ține de latura mai puțin lăudabilă a psihologiei umane). S-ar zice că egalitarismul comunist a fost pedeapsa primită de România pentru inegalitarismul anterior.
Lucian BoiaStichwörter: history communism romania
Those that aspire to raise their head above the crowd are most likely to have it shot off.
Leif HerrgesellStichwörter: history military-history adventure-stories
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts will do the same thing in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in a path or a breath caught at the sight of a pretty girl or a finger nail nicked in the garden soil.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: history direction cause-and-effect
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