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Zinedine Zidane | History Quotes
Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
Norman Cousins
History is a vast early warning system.
Janio Quadros
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.




Oscar Wilde
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
John W. Gardner
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
Edward Gibbon | History Quotes
The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
Socrates
We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.
Arthur C. Clarke
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Don DeLillo | History Quotes
I think fiction recues history from its confusions.




Camille Paglia
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Stephen R. Lawhead
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
Robert Penn Warren
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
Auguste Comte | History Quotes
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
Brian Hanrahan
He saw more than his share of history unfold.
Anonymous
History is written by the victors.
Christopher Hitchens
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.
Saki
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.


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