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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.


Frederick Jackson Turner


#anew #conception #conditions #each #form

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.


George Orwell


#history #life #life

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.


Simon Conway Morris


#doings #evil #history #human #human history

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.


William Thomas Green Morton


#decency #ethics #flaws #history #ironies

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.


Josefina Vazquez Mota


#first #history #i #mexico #president

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.


Malcolm Muggeridge


#constantly #evil #history #our #our time

When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, nearly in the same way as when we look at any great mechanical invention as the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting, I speak from experience, will the study of natural history become!


Charles Darwin


#natural-history #physicalism #experience

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it


George Santayana


#lesson #life #past #repeat #life

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.


Amy Tan


#mystery #life

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things.


Hippocrates


#religion #science #skepticism #men






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