“History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.”
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“The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”
“History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.”
Source: A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies
“History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.”
“History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.”
“But then history does not only consist of documents.”
Source: The Hitler of History
“The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.”
“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
“History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.”
Source: Outline of the Principles of History
“Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.”
Source: Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays
“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
Source: Poor Russell's almanac
“The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.”
“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
“In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.”
Source: Dancing building
“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.”
“Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke”
“Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.”
“My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866
“If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.”
“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”
“The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique
“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”
“I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.”
Source: Women impressionists
“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”
“Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.”