#history

Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#class #clearly #country #economic #entrepreneurial

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artifices #both #everybody #found #history

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#deal #great #great deal #history #i

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher. ↗

— David Soul

#become #father #follow #footsteps #hero

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#interpretation #past #significance #us

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#been #cross #few #history #into

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. ↗

— Norodom Sihanouk

#history #inevitably #lies #place #them

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#clinton #compassionate #conscious #could #his

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. ↗

— Ethan Suplee

#american history #commercials #done #great #had