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«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, civilization, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, dumber, dumbest, history of science, literature, speculation, speculations, standstill
«An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.»
Author: Peter Utley
| About:
History
| Keywords:
contemporary, contemporary history, oration, orations
«A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.»
«A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| About:
History,
Mind,
Opinions,
Study
| Keywords:
emancipation, preliminary
«A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
History,
Libraries,
Life
| Keywords:
delivery, famous, history of ideas, modify, place of birth, Socrates
«Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Bankers and banks,
History,
Mankind,
Money,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
hoard, inflationary
«Assassination has never changed the history of the world»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Assassination,
History
| Keywords:
History of the world
«Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Control,
History
| Keywords:
arrangement, domination, Europe, History of, History of Europe, particularly, The Arrangement, The Domination, The History, The History of
«Blood alone moves the wheels of history.»
«Biography is the only true history»
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