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chronology

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The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.

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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. James A. Garfield

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries. Peter Medawar

In the early ages of the world, according to the Scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion. Thomas Paine

The audience I joined was perhaps 80 percent female. I heard some sniffles and glimpsed some tears, and no wonder. Eat Pray Love is shameless wish-fulfillment, a Harlequin novel crossed with a mystic travelogue, and it mercifully reverses the life chronology of many people, which is Love Pray Eat. Roger Ebert

The Greek "point of view” in both art and chronology has little in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages. Marshall McLuhan

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

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