I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.
You can write your own history.
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed – the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
Then I despair… I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.
I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for ‘history.’ The closest word for it is memory.
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
Later, I made a movie with him, ‘That Touch of Mink,’ and we became good friends but any woman’s initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
We’re not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
My mother’s proud of where she’s from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
You can be poor, middle class, or rich – it doesn’t matter. The black card will still confer upon you an entire history of oppression, even if you’ve never been oppressed. Flash the black card, and most white people will cower.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
