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The tears of God are the meaning of history -- Nicholas Wolterstorff
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history. -- Emile M. Cioran
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. -- James Mark Baldwin
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes. -- Jackson Katz
I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past. -- Vanilla Ice
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. -- Thomas Huxley
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation. -- Oscar Isaac
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. -- David Hockney
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it. -- Tony Judt
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. -- George F. Kennan
The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States. -- Joseph Bruchac
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history. -- Bayard Taylor
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy. -- David Blunkett
I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable. -- Hussein Chalayan
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day. -- Bruce Feiler
So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward. -- Kerry Washington
Each life contains as much meaning as all of history. -- Catherine Chung
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. -- Wilhelm Reich
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. -- Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. -- Nikolai A. Berdyaev
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. -- Hermann Hesse
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. -- George H. W. Bush
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. -- Albert Camus
In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do. -- Jodi Picoult
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time. -- Paul Valery
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. -- Jeanette Winterson
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth. -- James Harvey Robinson
The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom. -- Timothy Radcliffe
I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day. -- Mo Rocca

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