Sometimes history give clear lessons, sometimes it is indeed a brave new world with no clarity or certainty.
In 18th-century America, where garden history sometimes dovetailed with political history, the trends were 30 years or so behind Europe.
Fantasies are a way of rewriting childhood history, sometimes to wreak revenge on abusive or absent adults, sometimes to sanitise memories of them.
But I think if you look at history, sometimes what countries need for their sense of self-respect, what they need in terms of recognition from the world is more than the world can give them.
Mr Duncan follows these roots as they twist and turn through history, sometimes atrophying for centuries, only to be revived within a particular society, by the influence of visionary leaders and scientific discoveries from abroad.
But while history shows that sometimes the worst-case scenario plays out, usually it doesn't.
There is a long arc to history and progress sometimes comes in unexpected ways.
He opens with an excellent thumbnail life of Alfred Nobel himself and a briskly critical history of the sometimes wayward administration of the prize.
Of those that work, some may owe their success to a powerful, binding ideology (as in the United States), backed by laws, history and, sometimes, a single language.
In other words, people who have gone through traumas... and Apple has gone through a couple of traumas in its history, they sometimes feel like they can never have enough cash.
The Lebanese audience laughed, sometimes uncomfortably, recognizing their history.
Sometimes, at some points in history, you only need to move the needle a little bit to set in motion a transformation.
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In a thoughtful study, Stephen Asma examines how natural-history museums fulfil the sometimes conflicting functions of education and entertainment, and how far their scientific purpose has been distorted by crowd-pleasing gimmicks.
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Given the long history of competition and sometimes even open animosity between some from the Texas and Nashville musical scenes, it may seem surprising that this project was recorded in Nashville at all.
In my experience, such situations are not uncommon in the history of trading and can sometimes last weeks.
The family lived through a tumultuous period of Brazil's history, during which Jews sometimes had reason to feel menaced by bigoted despots and fascist rabble.
On its streets you wander through yesterday and tomorrow, from ancient history to accelerating future, sometimes in the same shimmering minute, and there is nowhere, absolutely nowhere, quite like it in our world or in our time.
But sometimes the reality is that defining moments of history come suddenly and without warning.
Environmentalists have a long history of anti-business rants, sometimes against growth itself.
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It is difficult to know if these kinds of statements represent any kind of opportunity for negotiation, given the history of Meshal and Hamas, but sometimes a few words in the Middle East do indicate a potential for renewed talks.
But there are a lot of musings about the nature of attention, and a nice history of the debate over whether being constantly connected sometimes screws up our our performance.
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Sometimes I worry, Will I be a small footnote in fashion history?
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But Bill Gates has been a partner, competitor and student of IBM, sometimes all at once, and he can take solace in its history.
Willis noted that there is still a stigma against people who have had cancer, and sometimes survivors struggle with when to tell other people about their cancer history -- if at all.
He sees this period as a turning point in the work of each artist and in the history of art, and he chronicles every day, sometimes every hour, of their life together.
Doctors sometimes make judgment calls to treat people as high risk because of family history, even if it isn't part of the patient's risk score.
Conversations about schoolwork take on new zest when, rather than a specific work of literature or history, you are wrestling with the English language itself, sometimes pinned down by an immigrant youth, and sometimes throwing and clobbering the youth instead.
"Sometimes you find yourself in a position to do something important, to change history, " he said.
But we do not expect history to repeat itself, although as the saying goes, it sometimes rhymes.
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