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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#done #had #history #i #job

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.


Leo Tolstoy


#life

This is a story about survival. Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life. The things left unsaid...


Nadège Richards


#letting-go #life #moving-on #moving-on-and-letting-go #survival-story

I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take risks as heroes do, experiencing, living, becoming the main character—but no matter what, we all have at least one story to tell.


Merce Cardus


#life-and-living #risks #storytelling #life

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.


Bill Bryson


#humor #humor

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.


Michael Gruber


#life #wisdom #life

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever


Westminster Shorter Catechism


#history-of-philosophy #meaning-of-life #motto #motto-in-life #reformed

[I]t is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.


Anna Quindlen


#cities #city-life #fictional-london #history #life

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.


Carl L. Becker


#truth #imagination

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality.


Eric Sloane


#imagination






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