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• The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.'

  David Brooks

  Technology, Thinking, Roots

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• In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Determination, Government, Self

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• For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Art, Play, Understanding

  "The Gadamer Reader: A Bouquet of the Later Writings".

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• Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

  Franz Karl Achard

  Mind, Connections, Amusement

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• Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

  Linda Hogan

  Struggle, Important, Life Is

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• Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.

  Sara Gruen

  Passion, Light, Details

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• When one historical period is replaced by another, there is
  always a group of people left over from the old society

  Henning Mankell

  People, Groups, Periods

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Dec 11, 2012

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• Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

  Geoffrey Barraclough

  Animal, Past, Men

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• It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

  Antonia Fraser

  Long, Biographies, Gaps

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• False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

  Adrienne Rich

  New Day, News, Made

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

  Carl L. Becker

  Writing, Mind, Age

  "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers". Book by Carl L. Becker (Chapter II, pp. 43-44), 1932.

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• I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

  Iris Chang

  Skills, Gathering, Research

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• You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

  Max Roach

  Running, Book, Writing

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• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Fans, Fiction, Huge

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• I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.

  Ben Bradlee

  Girl, Numbers, People

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• Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

  John Shelton Reed

  Southern, Flags, Records

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• By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram A. Boornazian [mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston] have found evidence that the sun has been contracting about 0.1% per century during that time, corresponding to a shrinkage rate of about 5 feet per hour. And digging deep into historical records, Eddy has found 400-year-old eclipse observations that are consistent with such a shrinkage.

  Jonathan Sarfati

  Years, Data, Feet

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• A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Education, Liberty, Libertarian

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that these views rest on false assumptions and unreal, artificial schemes of historical development. This is a real contribution and not to be minimized.'

  Millar Burrows

  Real, Yale, Views

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• I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

  Wilbur Smith

  Country, Reality, Views

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• A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, Laughter, Drama

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• As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

  William E. Gladstone

  Work, Men, Brain

  North American Review, Sept./Oct. 1878

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• Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

  Nick Clooney

  Might, Matter, Should

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• Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.

  William Torrey Harris

  Humble, School, Thinking

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• After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Real, Past, Analogies

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