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“Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.”

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David Shannon is an American author known for his children's literature. Born on October 5, 1960, he has written numerous books that have become beloved by children, including 'No, David' and 'David, Be Good'. more

“All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.”

Men Humans Names Answers Destiny History Ultimate Raises Patterns Worthy Theology Realms Historian Sections Human Experience Raises Questions

Author:G. B. Caird

“[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.”

Littles Reality History Written Fit Opposites Capture Messy

Book:Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Source: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

“"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."”

People I Can Sound Silence History Terrible Can Not Drowning

Author:Eva Hart

“A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.”

“I was just born to swing, that's all.”

Women Born Swings

Author:Lil Hardin Armstrong

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