#history

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola. ↗

— Robert Shea

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History has repeated itself many times througout the ages. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

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I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#cyclic #man #memories #poem #time

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#after #am #history #i #i am

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#applied #because #being #believe #book

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. ↗

— Allan Sherman

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Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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