#story

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#because #country #cruel #direction #face

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#converted #day #doing #ebay #games

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#chance #deliver #given #i #i think

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#assign #born #climates #common #countless

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.' ↗

— Ree Drummond

#black #cookbook #heels #i #love

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#cabinet #construction #endeavor #history #neither

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#because #change #conditions #essentials #events

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#around #doing #everyone #forward #guy

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#care #guy #history #i #issue