Rewriting History Quotes
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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet
“No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.”
― Master of the Mountain
― Master of the Mountain
“That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.”
― Knights of the Hill Country
― Knights of the Hill Country
“He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.”
― The Lost Sisterhood
― The Lost Sisterhood
“(both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate)”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.”
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“There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very, very good.
And when she was “bad”,
Her Papa loved her anyway.”
― Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very, very good.
And when she was “bad”,
Her Papa loved her anyway.”
― Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled
“Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her dear dog a bone.
Though the cupboard was bare,
When she focused elsewhere
Her heart overflowed with fun!”
― Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled
Went to the cupboard
To get her dear dog a bone.
Though the cupboard was bare,
When she focused elsewhere
Her heart overflowed with fun!”
― Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled
“History is dramatic license, covertly-financed with a sprinkling of gold dust from the newly-enthroned.”
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“Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life!”
― Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life!”
― Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled
“There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children
And she still kept her cool.”
― Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled
Who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children
And she still kept her cool.”
― Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled
“Quoting someone and rewriting their words makes it a quote from you and not them any longer. To change the meaning of someone's words without permission is offensive enough, to then contact the quoted person and try to justify it to them is even worse. It's verbatim or bust!”
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“Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was quality. There were none so self-righteous as those who rewrote their past.”
― The Last Midwife
― The Last Midwife
“Even if your history was erased because of some power. Don’t give up bcoz it flows in your veins ....Rewrite it if u must!”
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“No one knows what happens when you screw up time and space. We could get in a whole heap of trouble. What do you think the sentence is for rewriting history?”
― Time May Never Tell: A Time Travel Murder Mystery
― Time May Never Tell: A Time Travel Murder Mystery
“History is initially written by the victors who survived until being rewritten by the vanquished who survived longer.”
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