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“History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.”
Howard Zinn“There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.”
Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves“The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion.Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender.”
Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times“In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature.”
Abdourahman A. Waberi“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”
Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra“There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.”
Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times“You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.”
Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?“Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness.”
Frank Wanderer“Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.”
Anthony Bourdain“You may disagree. Personal history and national history do not always overlap, a point often overlooked in some of the broad strokes applied to the SG50 celebrations. But do consider your choices. In the age of Buzzfeed, we love lists. Make your own. No two lists will be the same, but collectively, they all say the same thing. They are all in search of a soul.”
Neil Humphreys