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I've been working on the lost history of technical women. -- Megan Smith
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I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth. -- Jill Lepore
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. -- James Martineau
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. -- Henry Louis Gates
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it. -- Michael Baumgartner
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost. -- Mario Testino
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. -- Stefan Zweig
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. -- Joyce Carol Oates
There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. -- Stephen Cohen
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost. -- Sylvia Earle
We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time... many subjects of history are lost. -- Chin Han
I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. -- Sarah Vowell
Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall. -- Eleanor Clift
Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy. -- Nestor Carbonell
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. -- Albert J. Nock
There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground. -- David Cheriton
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history. -- Juan Williams
Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history. -- John Henrik Clarke
History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost! -- Louis Farrakhan
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. -- William Howard Adams
There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost. -- Muriel Rukeyser
Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,' -- Barack Obama
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. -- Gore Vidal
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart. -- Aberjhani
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story. -- Buzz Aldrin
Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history. -- Graham Masterton
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. -- Carl Sagan
More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardians and protectors. -- M.F. Moonzajer
The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history. -- Winston Churchill
I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context. -- Shimon Attie
It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1. -- Alex Ferguson
To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering. -- Clive Cussler
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness. -- Helen Foster Snow
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. -- Ralph Barton Perry
History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. -- Allan Nevins
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be. -- Richard J. Foster
Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves. -- Vasily Grossman
All this history...,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely from its past. -- David Levithan
History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success. -- Scott Berkun
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. -- William Henry Harrison
...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious. -- Patrick deWitt
Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later. -- James Rollins
Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same. -- Shannon L. Alder
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ringï»¿ passed out of all knowledge. -- J. R. R. Tolkien

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