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“Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.”

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Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian known for her research on women's history. Her book 'The American Woman: Her Past and Present' had a profound impact on gender studies. more

“To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions.”

Way Different Hands Might Eye History Study Civilization Ocean Wide Conclusion Treatment Application Venture Outlines

Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.”

Heart Stills Enough Humor Funny Three Rooms Hollywood Fruit Seeds Producers Movie Sincerity Navel Fruit Flies

Author:Fred Allen

“I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.”

Film Audience Asian American Film

Author:Jackie Chan

“The past is useless. That explains why it is past.”

Past History Useless

Book:Cause for Wonder

Source: Cause for Wonder

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes.”

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.”

Source: The History of Early Rome

“Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.”

Inspirational May Motivational History Difficulty Fundamentals Unity Despite Contradiction Paradox Framework

Book:On History

Source: On History

“The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.”

Past Understanding History Masters Keys Function Historian

Author:Edward Hallett Carr

“History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.”

Ifs Men Mean Persons Doe Real Use Purpose Fighting Wealth History Battle Activity Work Out Enormous Using Me

Author:Karl Marx

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