Quote by Howard Nemerov
A chronicle is very different from history proper. - Howard Nemero

A chronicle is very different from history proper. – Howard Nemerov

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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. Its one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldnt live without. – Howard Nemerov

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History
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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early. – Howard Nemerov

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Freedom
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It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. – Neale Donald Walsch

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History

A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America

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History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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History

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. – Jon Meacham

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History

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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. – George Eliot

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Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. – Robert K. Merton, Social Theory, 1957

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