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E. O. Wilson | History Quotes
In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.




Edmund Cooper
But then history was made by fools.
Mark Riebling
The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.
John Updike | History Quotes
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
Barbara Tuchman
History is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Levon Ter-Petrossian
16 years...a very short and very long time, when it comes to Armenia's history.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
Heydar Aliyev
Nakhchivan has an ancient history of statehood. This is Azerbaijan’s statehood history.
Patriotism ruins history.




Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Alexander Pope
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Fiona Apple
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
Plutarch | History Quotes
These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
Laura Penny
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
Harry Turtledove
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
Karl Marx
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
William O. Douglas
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.


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