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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

I have read up about the history of Wimbledon and watched the 'Crazy Gang' documentary on BT Sport.

It's great to have a small place in their history, all that the Yankees mean and everything, that's awesome.

Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird's eye view, it's the Indigenous way of storytelling.

For whatever reason, you gravitate to certain subjects, and I read a lot of history.

White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so entrenched.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.