710 Quotes About Historical



  • Author Walter Benjamin
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    Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness

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  • Author Zbigniew Brzezinski
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    In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.

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  • Author Alan Coren
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    Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

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  • Author Carlos Castaneda
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    It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

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  • Author Eleanor Catton
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    Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

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  • Author George Crumb
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    Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

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