"Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall."

History, Time, Moment, Change

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"Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall."

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."

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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"History is the hallmark of humanity."

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."

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"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

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"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

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"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."

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"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise."

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"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."

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"The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity."

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"

"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."

"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."

"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."

"History is the hallmark of humanity."

"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

Explore more quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."

"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

"To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths."

"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."

"I never learn anything from listening to myself."

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."

"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise."

"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."

"The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity."