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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires. -- Warren Buffett
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing. -- Jack Kevorkian
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. -- Golda Meir
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. -- Garth Brooks
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. -- Atul Gawande
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too. -- Bruce Feiler
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. -- Mattie Stepanek
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? -- Polly Toynbee
The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story. -- Roger Wang
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. -- Jodie Foster
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. -- David Attenborough
I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently. -- Boris Kodjoe
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history. -- Harold Perrineau
There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous. -- Candis Cayne
History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does. -- Colm Toibin
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time. -- James Earl Jones
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. -- Isabel Wilkerson
I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is. -- John Howe
The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong. -- Mitt Romney
You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something going on here. And whether you want to call it channeling or being connected to a creative force or knowing your history and knowing where you belong, that's, you know, maybe a personal thing. -- John Zorn
Going through college a Red Sox fan and knowing the history behind everything that was going on back in the '80s and finally getting a chance to win a World Series for this great city and bringing it back after 86 years, it was truly special, and it's one of the highlights that I'll remember for a long time. -- Tim Wakefield
Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future. -- Gloria Feldt
Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them. -- Pamela Yates
If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new. -- Eamon Duffy
Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history -- Brian Tracy
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing. -- Gerda Lerner
I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history. -- Eden Sher

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