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history who-we-are way
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
history want done
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
history social shank
History is the shank of the social sciences. C. Wright Mills
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese
history want grants
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant
history
When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it. E. Hicks
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
history
History! Read it and weep!
history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
creeds faith scriptures
Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.
creeds customs dream echoes laws life masculine men mere social thus true woman women
Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. Elizabeth Stanton
creeds crumbling orthodox ruins
One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.
creeds companion nonviolence
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions. Mahatma Gandhi
creeds force active
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
creeds nonviolence unchangeable
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
creeds nonviolence
Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.
poetry-is happens
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Charles Bukowski
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
poetry-is touchstones feigning
The truest poetry is the most feigning. William Shakespeare
poetry-is
... poetry is fired by love ... Erica Jong
poetry-is
The poetry is myself. Gwendolyn Brooks
poetry-is translations
Poetry is what is gained in translation. Joseph Brodsky
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Wallace Stevens
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.