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“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.”
Randall Jarrell Quotes |
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“There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.”
Geraldine Jewsbury Quotes |
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“Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.”
Margaret Mead Quotes |
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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.”
Henry De Montherlant Quotes |
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“History -- its what those bitter old men write.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes |
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“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
Ovid Quotes |
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“History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.”
Nancy Pickard Quotes |
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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.".”
Marcel Proust Quotes |
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“Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.”
Thomas H. Raddall Quotes |
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“Every historian discloses a new horizon.”
George Sand Quotes |
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“The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.”
Friedrich von Schiller Quotes |
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“The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.”
Stendhal Quotes |
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“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”
A.j.p. Taylor Quotes |
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“The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.”
Richard H. Tawney Quotes |
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“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.”
Rebecca West Quotes |
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“I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.”
Charlotte Barnard Quotes |
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“May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.”
Paul Dickson Quotes |
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“Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...”
James Knox Polk Quotes |
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“It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.”
Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
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“The future has a way of arriving unannounced.”
George F. Will Quotes |
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“More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.”
John Barth Quotes |
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“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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“History is past politics; and politics present history.”
John Seeley Quotes |
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“History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.”
Voltaire Quotes |
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