#story

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212). ↗

— Carter Lindberg

#history-of-thought #intellectual-history #age

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#economic #francisco #history #intense #lived

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. ↗

— Doug Wilder

#history #involvement #joke #nation #nothing

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#crisis #economic #economic crisis #face #get

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#continued #few #good #i #indicated

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#doctrine #greater #history #particular #problem

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#around #being #classic #continue #dove

The first story I finished was when I was six years old. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#first #i #old #six #story

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#going #history #important #level #rate

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#back #coming #enormous #glad #going