#the history of

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. ↗

— Herb Ritts

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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#both #history #individual #life #neither

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. ↗

— John Moody

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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity. ↗

— LL Cool J

#always #big #had #hip-hop #history

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#being #history #intellect #itself #like

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#essential #everything #great #history #philosophers

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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