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Sebouh Chouldjian | History Quotes
The loss of historical memory is restored in the very place where one has lost it.
Stephen Spender
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Thomas Carlyle
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.




William Pfaff
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.
Cees Nooteboom
Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.
Gustave Flaubert | History Quotes
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Wendell Berry
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
E. Lee Spence
My drug of choice is historical research.
Alexander Ovechkin
I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.
Arthur C. Clarke
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Thomas Jefferson | History Quotes
History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.




Alexis de Tocqueville
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Djuna Barnes
Destiny and history are untidy.
Adolf Hitler
Politics is history in the making.
Myth therefore seems to choose history, rather than be chosen by it.
George Bernard Shaw
In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.
Richard Brautigan
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
Thomas Jefferson
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Shimon Peres
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.


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