Johan Huizinga Quotes

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Johan Huizinga

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945

Topics

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I exercise all the time, every morning, and then I do music in the afternoon. I walk two to three miles a day and do Pilates twice a week.

Jim James

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I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Jerry Stiller

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Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

Andre Weil

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The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

John Nelson Darby

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A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

Matt de la Pena

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My parents wanted me to go to law school!

Stacey Bendet

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Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

Sugata Mitra

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Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

Steven Berkoff

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Experience counts in government even more than in business.

Mo Ibrahim

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I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

Julia Roberts

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I have really fond memories of Texas. By the time I was eight, we started to go back to Chile very regularly, and many family members came to visit us because we couldn't go visit them.

Pedro Pascal

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The entrance is important, but it's the in-ring performance that fans truly remember. My zipline entrance has become so much bigger over time, but I still think fans remember the match more than anything.

Shawn Michaels

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