History Quotes
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Dickens saw Victorian England always with the eyres of a pre-Victorian. His ideal England was the England of Hazlitt and of Pickwick.
C.L.R. James
Our prevailing notions of history are exceedingly narrow and exceedingly selective. And basically the process of selection is one that aims to reassure ourselves that the myths that we believe in can be sustained. ... Recognize the truths, the realities that I want to and ignore the ones that I find inconvenient.
Anna Komnene
[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/chaplin/aaronhale.html Brief bio]
Charlie Chaplin
Show me what happened to my country after separating from Pakistan. This is the Parliament building that many people say Pakistan did nothing to us, this (Parliament building) is theirs.
Sadia Sheikh
[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Hiratsuka+Raichō&btnG= Hiratsuka Raichō] at
Hiratsuka Raichō
History will be erased in the universal purgatory.
Huang Ziping
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[http://nativeamericanwriters.com/zitkala-sa.html Early Native American Literature page]
Zitkala-Ša
?Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend” [http://www.sportskeeda.com/2011/05/31/paul-scholes-top-quotes-on-a-top-player/]
Socrates (Brazilian footballer)
For nearly the whole of the next century [c. 13th century], Gujarat remained independent. Perhaps "no other Indian dynasty put up a more sustained or successful resistance against the Muslims for a longer period.
Shabana Azmi
By relating an ancient instance of white colonization in a dark subcontinent, it confirmed the colonial worldview.
Gita Gopinath
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[https://www.70yearsmg.com/athletes/nawal-el-moutawakel/ Biography of Nawal]
Nawal El Moutawakel
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7YcVjFcPDM&list=PLK2ccNIJVPpAlYHL7UaTP5uUs6eux28ZG Verghese Kurien Google Doodle Video]
Verghese Kurien
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[https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/audio/playlists/dust_tracks.php Online recordings of Zora (made available for public use by the State Archives of Florida)]
Zora Neale Hurston
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070309142929/http://www.shinfujin.gr.jp/eng/1_what/index.html New Japan Women's Association]
Hiratsuka Raichō
Totti is a great player, one of the last Number 10s remaining in football. The way to play football today has pushed out real Number 10s who make the show. I have a lot of admiration for him, I think he is the best Number 10.
Gianni Rivera
[http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/185.html?c=10 Fukuzawa, Yukichi in Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures at the National Diet Library]
Fukuzawa Yukichi