Regardless, the uncovered pages offer a new glimpse into Anne’s life and personality — and a reminder that, even in hiding under tragic circumstances, she was just a teenager.
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History began July 4th, 1776. Anything before that was a mistake.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
I will not become a page in someone else’s history book.
— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Stannis Baratheon, Stephen Dillane, imdb.com
Everything in every way has been begun and completed and then forgotten over and over, in this world, — to be begun and completed and forgotten again, and so on to the end of the chapter. No one nation is better than another in this respect, — there is, there can be nothing new.
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world’s surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could. I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the…
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
Some people believe that without history, our lives amount to nothing. At some point, we all have to choose. Do we fall back on what we know? Or, do we step forward, to something new? It’s hard not to be haunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us, what guides us. Our history resurfaces. Time…
I never wanted to be a leader. But everybody knows my history. It came naturally. All the focus was on me. I just tried to pass on my best to the other players, to tell them what I thought was important in my life.
I wanna blow up or make history.
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you’re dead. And you’re remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost!
History has a way of looking better than it was.
Now, history judges every leader, every president, by how he or she treats his or her own people.
— Frank Pugliese, Melissa James Gibson, Claire Underwood, Robin Wright, imdb.com
Innovation is a very strange thing in general, because it’s so hard to know what to learn about it or how to study it. Every moment in the history of business, in the history of technology, happens only once. And so there’s no formula.
The burden of the historian in our time is to re-establish the dignity of historical studies on a basis that will make them consonant with the aims and purposes of the intellectual community at large, that is, transform historical studies in such a way as to allow the historian to participate positi…
The historian serves no one well by constructing a specious continuity between the present world and that which preceded it. On the contrary, we require a history that will educate us to discontinuity more than ever before; for discontinuity, disruption, and chaos is our lot.
History has become increasingly the refuge of all of those 'sane' men who excel at finding the simple in the complex and the familiar in the strange.