"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being."

-- Ken Burns

#Past Quotes #Historical Quotes #Survival Quotes

“But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.”
“People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!”
“And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.”
“If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.”
“We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.”

Source : Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.303
“It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.”
“Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.”

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