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Don DeLillo | History Quotes
I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
Larry Wall
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
Kenneth Clark
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.




Cees Nooteboom
Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Simon Bolivar | History Quotes
The three greatest idiots in history, have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and myself.
Gustavo Gutierrez
The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
Jacques Barzun
I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.
Camille Paglia
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
S. M. Stirling
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John Maynard Keynes | History Quotes
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.




H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
David Ben-Gurion
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
Emil Cioran
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Moses I. Finley
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
Jefferson Davis | History Quotes
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Heydar Aliyev
Nakhchivan has an ancient history of statehood. This is Azerbaijan’s statehood history.
Anonymous
History shows that life is the cheapest commodity.
Thomas Carlyle
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!


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