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Arthur C. Clarke | History Quotes
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Plutarch
These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
Sir Thomas Browne
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.




James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
Nikita Khrushchev
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in. (We will bury you.)
Laurence Sterne | History Quotes
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Edmund Cooper
Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.
Karl Marx
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
Margaret Mead
Throughout history, females have picked providers for mates. Males pick anything.
Terry Eagleton
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson | History Quotes
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.




Stephen R. Lawhead
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
Abba Eban
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Tony Buzan
The world is historically mentally illiterate.
Karl Marx
[T]he great test [of history] has been decidedly against Marx and his theories of value and surplus value.
Janio Quadros | History Quotes
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.
James Fenton
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins,its transmission was oral.
Richard Dawkins
Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
Fiona Apple
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.


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