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“History belongs to the winner.”
Anon. Quotes |
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“History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.”
Anon. Quotes |
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“We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.”
Anon. Quotes |
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“Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.”
Mary Coleridge Quotes |
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“History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.”
Dorothy Salisbury Davis Quotes |
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“Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.”
Phillip Guedalla Quotes |
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“History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.”
Phillip Guedala Quotes |
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“Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.”
Philip Howard Quotes |
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“All history, of course, is the history of wars.”
Penelope Lively Quotes |
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“Give the historians something to write about.”
Propertius Quotes |
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“A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.”
Abram Joseph Ryan Quotes |
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“The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.”
Saki Quotes |
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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.”
Arnold Schopenhauer Quotes |
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“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
Lee Simonson Quotes |
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“I have no history but the length of my bones.”
Robin Skelton Quotes |
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“History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.”
Clarice Stasz Stoll Quotes |
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“To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.”
Orson Wells Quotes |
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“There is no life that does not contribute to history.”
Dorothy West Quotes |
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“Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.”
Ronald Wright Quotes |
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“History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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“History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.”
Clarence Darrow Quotes |
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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.”
Gretel Ehrlich Quotes |
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“History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.”
Stephen Spender Quotes |
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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
Henry B. Adams Quotes |
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“One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war.”
Robert D. Macdonald Quotes |
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