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A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
Author: Abram Joseph Ryan
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Author: Saki
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The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
Author: Arnold Schopenhauer
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Author: Lee Simonson
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I have no history but the length of my bones.
Author: Robin Skelton
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History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
Author: Clarice Stasz Stoll
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To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
Author: Orson Wells
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There is no life that does not contribute to history.
Author: Dorothy West
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Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Author: Ronald Wright
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History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Author: Clarence Darrow
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History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
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History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Author: Stephen Spender
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Author: Henry B. Adams
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One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war.
Author: Robert D. Macdonald
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
Author: William Manchester
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Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.
Author: Richard M. Nixon
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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
Author: Richard M. Nixon
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
Author: Oliver North
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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Author: Evita Peron
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We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Author: Juan Antonio Samaranch
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Author: George Santayana
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[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
Author: Adm James Stockdale
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
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History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Author: Arnold J. Toynbee
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Author: Jessamyn West
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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
Author: Theodore H. White
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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History is the devil's scripture.
Author: Lord Byron
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The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
Author: Cicero
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History is a vast early warning system.
Author: Norman Cousins
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Author: Eugene V. Debs
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History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Author: Paul Eldridge
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Author: Anatole France
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History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
Author: John W. Gardner
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Author: Edward Gibbon
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We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
Author: Don Herold
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The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Author: Aldous Huxley
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Author: Randall Jarrell
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There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
Author: Geraldine Jewsbury
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Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
Author: Margaret Mead
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Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
Author: Henry De Montherlant
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History -- its what those bitter old men write.
Author: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Author: Ovid
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History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
Author: Nancy Pickard
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The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".
Author: Marcel Proust
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Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Author: Thomas H. Raddall
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Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Author: George Sand
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