#history

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ↗

— William Halsey

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An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#contrary #course #desired #destiny #history

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#good #history #makes #peace #poor

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#appear #arcane #archaic #both #come

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#elder #english #history #man #must

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

#helplessness #history #hope #hopelessness #induces

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.' ↗

— Colin Hay

#because #began #boring #changed #changes

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#chapters #civil #civil rights #establishment #handle

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#art #background #candy #child #culture