#history

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I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.


Ken Burns


#before #faulkner #history #i #just

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.


Anne Burrell


#cook #cuisine #culture #did #fresh

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.


John Burroughs


#feeling #funeral #go #history #i

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.


James Chanos


#default #everyone #good #greece #history

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.


Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


#after #discovered #energies #fire #god

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.


Margaret Thatcher


#dangerous #less #more #nuclear #nuclear weapons

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.


Lion Feuchtwanger


#call #days #debate #history #i

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.


Mary Fallin


#american dream #better #built #dream #example

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.


Jackson Browne


#around #began #college #college students #contained

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.


Anthony LaPaglia


#disappeared #east #had #history #into