#history

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ↗

— George Will

#arriving #future #way

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#comet #created #drought #every #explain

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#between #class #classes #development #dominated

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#come #course #decide #energy #history

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#back #come #great #history #long

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history. ↗

— Carson Daly

#cheap #course #greatest #had #history

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. ↗

— Evan Dando

#bands #consumption #dig #even #history

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#clear #doctrine #essential #found #gives

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#collaborate #effectively #history #humankind #improvise

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world. ↗

— Angela Davis

#california #campuses #communities #consciousness #country