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“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”

World Years Mind Children Stills Joy Half History Greater Sadness Events Thousand Degrees Distance Fortune Thousand Years Good And Bad Outlines Bad Fortune Joy And Sadness

Author:Johan Huizinga

“A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.”

Science Politics Energy Interest Nature Leadership Space Race Half History Technology Generations Century Policy Moon International Secure Ideology Racing Foreign Policy Diplomacy Arctic

Author:Rick Larsen

“Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.”

Humans Race Half History Human Race Conventional

Author:Barbara Mertz

“For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution.”

May Half History Century Danger Integrity Constitution Unions Obligation Half A Century

Author:Zachary Taylor

“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 talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.”

Facts Lying Half History Talent Creating Historian Ensemble

Author:Ernest Renan

“In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It was noisy, undisciplined, vainglorious; its leader was a half-educated posturing foreigner. For a decade the National Socialists were regarded as hoodlums, as part of the breakdown of what had been, if anything, an excessively ordered society before.”

Ifs Way Said Half Leader History Mass Paid Decades Educated Foreigners Breakdown Noisy Nazism Homage Nazi Germany Undisciplined

Book:The Making of Adolf Hitler: The Birth and Rise of Nazism

Source: The Making of Adolf Hitler: The Birth and Rise of Nazism

“People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.”

People Thinking Half History Cemetery

Author:Aristide Briand