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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #history




Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.


Robert Walpole


#history #i #know #must #oh

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.


Jim Walsh


#american history #citizens #created #financially #generation

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.


Frank Waters


#american history #blot #expansion #history #joke

I'm a golfer not a history major.


Bubba Watson


#history #i #major

In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.


Allen Weinstein


#actions #citizens #counterparts #documenting #electronic

Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and balanced biological package for intensive food production. That package comprised three cereals, as the main carbohydrate sources; four pulses, with 20—25 percent protein, and four domestic animals, as the main protein sources, supplemented by the generous protein content of wheat; and flax as a source of fiber and oil (termed linseed oil: flax seeds are about 40 percent oil). Eventually, thousands of years after the beginnings of animal domestication and food production, the animals also began to be used for milk, wool, plowing, and transport. Thus, the crops and animals of the Fertile Crescent's first farmers came to meet humanity's basic economic needs: carbohydrate, protein, fat, clothing, traction, and transport.


Jared Diamond


#history #food

Heights plummeted because of a little disaster called civilization. "Heights go way down when we go into state society," says Bogin. "When Egypt conquered the Nile area, the height of peasants fell dramatically. They moved from having access to a wide variety of foods to growing what the Egyptian state demanded. Their bones show lots of deficiencies in minerals and iron." The same stunting happened repeatedly throughout history. As late as the 1800s, male Cheyenne Indians, who hunted bison and collected berries, averaged a whopping 5'10", towering above even today's Americans, not to mention General Custer's cavalry, which averaged 5'7", and the period's wealthy European monarchies.


Arianne Cohen


#height #history #hunter-gatherer #food

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.


Irvine Welsh


#constantly #cultural #fiction #history #i

History is a race between education and catastrophe.


H. G. Wells


#catastrophe #education #history #race

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.


William H. Wharton


#civil #colonists #condition #conduct #cultivation






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