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Myth therefore seems to choose history, rather than be chosen by it.
Robert Aumann
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
Cees Nooteboom
Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.




Karl Marx
[T]he great test [of history] has been decidedly against Marx and his theories of value and surplus value.
Celia Green
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
Colum McCann | History Quotes
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
Russell T Davies
Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!
Isaac Asimov
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Shimon Peres
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
Auguste Comte | History Quotes
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.




Ha-Joon Chang
History is on the side of the regulators.
James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
David McNally (professor)
When history moves - really moves - it does so in great convulsive jolts.
Thomas Carlyle
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Stephen R. Lawhead | History Quotes
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Christopher Hitchens
[I am persuaded by] the materialist conception of history.
Edmund Cooper
Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.
Lucien Levy-Bruhl
The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development.


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