#history

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#clear #dark #falls #history #humanity

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#cases #copenhagen #generalized #history #individuality

I want to write for history, not for the moment. ↗

— David Maraniss

#i #moment #want #write

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#either #government #history #i #improv

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. ↗

— Karl Marx

#course #create #history #may #mouthpiece

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? ↗

— David McCullough

#deciding #factor #history #how #human

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american #american history #arc #civil #civil liberties

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. ↗

— Oliver North

#america #been #ever #haven #i

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#history #intangible #kind #making #some