Quotes with histories

  • Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

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  • Sir Walter Raleigh All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • B. F. Skinner Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Alexander Pope Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Francis Bacon Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara Kruger I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Oliver Cromwell What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Beeban Kidron Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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