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Oscar Wilde | History Quotes
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Subhash Kak
History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.
Christopher Hitchens
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.




Felix Frankfurter
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Eamon de Valera
All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.
James Branch Cabell | History Quotes
The Terrible and Marvellous History of Manuel Pig-Tender That Afterwards Was Named Manuel the Redeemer.
Russell T Davies
Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!
Rabindranath Tagore
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,
unobscured by the dust of history.
Alberto Manguel
A book brings its own history to the reader.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Ralph Waldo Emerson | History Quotes
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.




Theodor Mommsen
History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
John Maynard Keynes
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Helen Thomas
This is the worst President ever. He is the worst President in all of American history.
Levon Ter-Petrossian
16 years...a very short and very long time, when it comes to Armenia's history.
Richard Brautigan | History Quotes
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
Karl Marx
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
Walter Benjamin
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
Antonio Gramsci
History is at once freedom and necessity.
Roger Federer
We are witnessing history. This is the most dominant athlete on planet earth today.


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