#history

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. ↗

— Billy Barty

#dreams #eighty #else #everyone #families

When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole city may reap the evil fruit of one man's ill deeds. ↗

— Christopher Henry Dawson

#history #justice #religion #men

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#church #evangelists #extended #extended family #family

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#careful #celestial #compose #duty #expert

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history. ↗

— Norman Corwin

#aspect #characters #history #me #most

I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl! ↗

— Denise Crosby

#black #did #down #ever #finally

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fame #history #dating

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#current events #did #events #ever #history

The artists of this nation - state are, taken as one historical subject, one of 'latecomers' to the smorgasbord of the artistic pantheon.Even if Sweden as a nation-state thus seems to have been excluded from the world art history its contemporary arts infrastructure presently makes the country a much more vital place of production. ↗

— Charlotte Bydler

#sweden #art

I think of the view from a favorite arroyo in the late afternoon, the east slope still bathed in sunlight, the far slope already full of dark shade and lengthening shadows. A cool breeze, as one can look across the plains, out over miles of homes and trees, and hear the faraway hum of traffic on the high-ways and see the golden light filtering through the mist-laden air. ↗

— Carey McWilliams

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