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Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.
Tony Robbins / Author
Age
Chronology
Psychology
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Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
History
Chronology
Lasts
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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
Hilary Mantel / Writer
Chronology
Memories
Way
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'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
Hilary Mantel / Writer
Chronology
Duplicate
Historian
Loops
Attempts
Flashes
Hall
Leaps
Memory
Wolf
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I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
Simon Schama / Art Historian
Chronology
Opinion
Time Great I Am
Arc
Strongly
Wired
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No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
Ken Ham /
Chronology
Evidence
Fields
Ham
Including
Records
Apparent
Claimed
Field
Record
Perceived
Valid
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The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
Robin Marantz Henig /
Brain
Capacity
Chronology
Encounters
Human Brain
Logic
Matter
Narrative
Apparently
Complete
Whatever
Evolved
Impose
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My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press
Nat Hentoff / Historian
Chronology
Said
Terrible
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Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in terms of chronology to suit the story.
Ashwin Sanghi / Author
Chronology
Markers
Established
Initial
Liberties
Suit
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Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
Jerry B. Jenkins / Novelist
Notebook
Bible
Chronology
Passages
Fairly
Cover
Sends
Tim
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From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.
Julius Wellhausen /
Chronology
Epoch
Geek
Justice
Solomon
Temples
Treated
Worship
Accordingly
Certain Extent
Dated
Period
Extent
Leading
Temple
The History Of
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
Barbara Amiel / Journalist
Chronology
Confusion
Ideas
Peculiar
Progress
Understood
Recent
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I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.
Joyce Carol Oates / Author
Challenges
Chronology
Dark
Notes
Writing
Lots
Assemble
Challenging
Coherent
Longhand
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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Writer
Chronology
Cities
Enjoyed
Inventing
Sun
Towns
Yellow
Central
Closer
Conquered
Minor
None
Placing
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The stage is that immediate rush of energy you get from the audience. Also, doing something in chronology - something that starts and finishes the same night. In television, you work toward the one scene, you shoot it, and then you have to forget about it because you have to worry about the next scene.
Juan Pablo Di Pace / Actor
Chronology
Finishes
Immediate
Rush
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In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
Neil Macgregor / Museum Director
Achieve
Chronology
Dramatic
Literal
Plot
Understood
Course
Simply
Desired
Fast
Effect
Histories
Loose
Shakespeare
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