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“History takes time. History makes memory.”

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Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature. more

“Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.”

Men World Mind Past Universe Force Natural Animal History Generations Air Sea Strange Forests Everlasting Trails Pathways Strange World

Author:Loren Eiseley

“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”

Knows Men Age Past History Knowing Towns Hills Not Knowing Disadvantages High Points Alone Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.”

Want Asian De Niro

Author:Jackie Chan

“When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.”

Half Teach History Paint Equations Unhealthy Morbid Warts Cromwell

Author:Mark Steyn

“The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.”

People Knows Way Writing Persons Wish History Ought Educated Historian Educated Person

Author:John Keegan

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