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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one.
The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
It is a considerable fact in the history of the world, that he was for four years King of England.
The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development.
Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself.
Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and I: three greatest fools of history.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — i.e., none to speak of.
Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.
Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.
Written history, like the missionary position, is an act executed from the top looking down.
8) History never repeats itself.
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.