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Walter Benjamin | History Quotes
History breaks down in images not into stories.
Joseph Heller
"The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know history?"
Thomas Carlyle
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!




Edwin Lefevre
History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.
Shaun Ryder
Do I think the Mondays will go down in musical history? I couldn't give a fuck!
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Emil Cioran
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Robert Walpole
Anything but history, for history must be false.
Stephen Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Christopher Hitchens
All postures of submission and surrender should be part of our prehistory.
Simon Bolivar | History Quotes
The three greatest idiots in history, have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and myself.




E. Lee Spence
My drug of choice is historical research.
Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
Karl Marx
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
Joan Robinson
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.
E. O. Wilson | History Quotes
In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
Edmund Cooper
There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.
George Bernard Shaw
In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.
Noam Chomsky
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.
James A. Garfield
The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.


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