Famous quotes containing the words history of, geography, period, technology and/or history:
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“Ktaadn, near which we were to pass the next day, is said to mean “Highest Land.” So much geography is there in their names.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.”
—A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
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