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Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience. -- Ben Bernanke
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination. -- Jennifer Gilmore
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. -- Ibrahim Babangida
We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw
American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history. -- Chris Jordan
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. -- Carlos Fuentes
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain. -- Sondre Lerche
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. -- Renata Adler
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience. -- Bill Nighy
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. -- Jerzy Kosinski
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -- Margaret Fuller
History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard. -- Jim Murphy
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. -- Aldous Huxley
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. -- Hu Shih
Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience. -- Alison Owen
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. -- James Henry Breasted
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. -- Herb Ritts
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. -- Donald Kagan
Utrip makes it easy for travelers to experience the destination highlights that most interest them, be it food, art or history. Just like a culinary experience, every palate is different, and Utrip is all about personalizing travel for their users. -- Tom Douglas

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