When it comes to true humility in the face of history nothing beats complete silence.
When it comes to true humility in the face of history nothing beats complete silence.
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Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees you have such a sense of the passage of time of history. It's like you're touching the essence the very substance of life.
Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees you have such a sense of the passage of time of history. It's like you're touching the essence the very substance of life.
Right around the end of the fifties college students and young people in general began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
Right around the end of the fifties college students and young people in general began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
Our history is that we can very aggressively if necessary and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
Our history is that we can very aggressively if necessary and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
But whenever history is in the making there's some kind of intangible feeling.
But whenever history is in the making there's some kind of intangible feeling.
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
Meditation while walking has a long noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
Meditation while walking has a long noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact as of the writing of this column millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact as of the writing of this column millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric able to take in current events history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment – that rappers because they're black can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric able to take in current events history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment – that rappers because they're black can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
Since I was there in the very beginning I know the history of the characters. So I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
Since I was there in the very beginning I know the history of the characters. So I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.