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James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.
Anything but history, for history must be false.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.
Ideas shape the course of history.
The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.
History is on the side of the regulators.
I can’t appreciate someone else’s history if I’m forced to reject and feel ashamed about mine.
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Quidem concessum est rhetoribus ementiri in historiis ut aliquid dicere possint argutius.
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.