"The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present."

-- Edward Hallett Carr

#Past Quotes #Keys Quotes #History Quotes

“I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.”
“If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.”
“The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of those areas. The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go backâ€¦to Dhoni.”
“Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.”

Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.137
“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.”

Source : The American Conflict ch. 1 (1864 - 1866)
“I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.”
“The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.”

Source : Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”

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